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In the haze of stale beer, bad jokes, and even worse poker hands, Joe, Ray, Mike, and Terry hatch the ultimate midlife crisis: robbing a bank. They're not criminals, just four average blokes with too much time, too little money, and one tragically convincing plan scribbled on the back of a pizza box. But what starts as a beer-fuelled fantasy soon spirals into a dangerously real operation.

NINE OVER PAR is Tim Miller's second collection of golf-themed stories and includes the novella "The Links Lighter." Gene Santos always dreamed of a life in Comedy. He lives a normal life with normal regrets, until a fateful night at the Twin Oaks Monday Night Men's Golf League when he suffers a traumatic brain injury.

When Steve Barton investigates a plane crash near a remote California community, he has no idea that he will come upon traces of one of his biggest regrets: Alice Chang. Alice Chang was the woman who got away. Or, more accurately, disappeared. Steve still often wonders what happened to his intriguing coworker. When he sees signs that Alice may have been inside a strange building an airplane plowed into, he launches an investigation that will lead to an underworld of electronic hackers, evil men, and murderers.

Bob Dylan’s music drifts out of Tom Patterson’s computer speakers, at once ethereal and down to Earth. As he listens, Tom’s mind drifts back to the 1960s and Dianne, the girl who left him for California. Tom could have—should have—gone with her, but he chose his new job in Ohio. And that was that. He never heard from her again.

Jim Schmidt had found his home, his place, on his acreage located on Starvation Mountain. He loved riding the mountains that ranged east of San Diego, and his avocado grove would soon be the site of his retirement home. He wished he had been able to convince Annie to move south when he left Boulder Creek, where they had lived together. It was still painful to consider that she had finally agreed to come down for a week just before she died in an awful traffic accident.

his book is about the memories that I have of growing up next to the beer joint. There were many men that made me laugh and there were a few that didn't. My Papaw, Marshall Millay, built the beer joint in 1942; he was curious to see what his old customers were up to... My Uncle, Stirman Millay, died at the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. He wanted to go see what the dumbbutts were up to. He pestered the other ghosts until they agreed to go with him.

Janice Millay Payne visits the graveyard and sits beside her dad's grave and prays for help. Her dad, mom, sister and grandparents are listening. They decide to answer her Prayers and visit the Beer Joint. Her grandfather, Marshall Millay, tells the others, "Our gal needs help and you know she won't stop hollering until we do." They let some of the customer's and employees know that they were there. There is some cussing; it is a bar set in 2018.