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"I play it cool
I dig all jive
That is how I stay alive
My motto as I Iive and learn
Is dig and be dug in return."
Langston Hughes

“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought...

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

#coward #fool #control #thief #liar #tyrant #slavery #trump

The Book Rescuers, located at 8325 Ulmerton Rd Largo, FL 33771, has books by two local Florida Authors on display.
Jimmy Pidgeon and Ben Rose. This is one fine bookstore with so much more than books.
Please find these two author's books on the local authors display.

Absolutely, maestro.

As who would not feel this way? Those seltzers were things of beauty...once one learned not to shoot oneself in the face whilst filling the glass.

Egg cream!!!!

"Ah, ye #bonny we lass!" He patted her head.
She kicked him in the shin. "Who you calling a boney, real ass, dude?"
#vss365

Happy Women's History Month Well-behaved women seldom make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

My latest Substack

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1985-1993 was a strange time. Especially for upper- middle class youth who were in the Punk scene. I knew many, and heard from others.
This novel is my tribute to that lost sub-generation.
Re-releasing later this month.

SCAN THE CODES for your next great read!

Ben Rose
Everybody But Us - Rising from the streets and conquering addiction. A gay romance fiction based on true events.
Found Family – Fiction based on life on the streets and overcoming addiction.

“Leo Zaslavsky! Holy Mother! Mom! Come here!” Maddie’s face was pale, her lower lip trembling, and tears began.
A lady who was a taller version of her daughter, and thinner, rushed through the rear office door in a panic. She looked where her daughter was pointing and almost fainted.
#vsa365

Mr. Z was sitting by a window; his bearded face bathed in a pale blue light emanating from the street below. He held a cell phone in his hand and appeared lost in thought. We didn’t want to startle him, but I could read the concern on Lothario’s face.
#FoundFamily
#VSS365

The four of us shimmied down the fire escape. I extracted myself from the coat and dangled from the end before landing in the thick snow on the sidewalk. Lance’s face, already pale, with red blotches from the cold, turned ashen.
#FoundFamily
#Vss365

A Caucasian male of middle age dressed in a purple valour suit.

A suit for book signing events

Found Family, Ben Rose YouTube video by OracleBookArtPublishing

m.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDM...

A great author reading the first chapter of my latest novel.
Please check him out, like, and subscribe

Then share with friends to who should like and subscribe

The Awakening: The Haunting of Memphis Pearle Part I: Acts I & II Amazon.com: The Awakening: The Haunting of Memphis Pearle Part I: Acts I & II: 9798349490804: Smith, Stephen: Books

Vaughn West. Her homecoming ignites the "Pearle Crescent" effect across town: flood-lights flicker, lanterns drift, and every street seems to funnel her back beneath Vaughn's watchful gaze-daring her to face the love, the loss, and the song she left unfinished.

www.amazon.com/Awakening-Ha...

The Awakening: The Haunting of Memphis Pearle Part I: Acts I & II Amazon.com: The Awakening: The Haunting of Memphis Pearle Part I: Acts I & II: 9798349490804: Smith, Stephen: Books

Looming above it all is the eyes of a towering billboard-immortalizing the face of legendary designer Vaughn West-that seem to follow her every move.
In Act I: Flight of the Pearle Crescent, Memphis slips into Temptation Estates at twilight, her limousine gliding beneath the towering billboard,(2/3)

Years after her voice echoed across Broadway and her name was splashed across the press, Memphis Pearle returns to the Southern town where her heart was first broken and her story was first told. She comes not for applause, but to disappear into solitude and anonymity. (1/3)

and have them taken care of officially. Understand?”
“I understand that you are telling me that it is a crime to help those in need. If that is a crime, then I will forever be guilty. Unless there is more information that you require, I should like to return home now.”
#FoundFamily
#SundaySnips

“Sir, these are runaways. Most of the youth we keep track of are. If you are harboring them, or aiding them in any way, you are in violation of several laws. They aren’t the sort of laws that we pursue aggressively, but you are better off to turn these children over to the system (1/2)

5 February, 2026. @1.00 PM.

For all #PinellasCounty residents.

Jimmy Pidgeon and Ben Rose will be attending this literary event.

Books to autograph and sell. Games. Prizes. Food.

Come enjoy the festivities to mark national Read-Aloud day.

Looking forward to meeting you.

Trey Pitts
Colorblind: A Photographic Journey in Blk & Wht and Infrared – a table book collection of high-end black and white and infrared photos taken by the author

Jimmy Pidgeon
From the Streets to the Steps: One Day At A Time / A Memoir - A enlightened guide to overcoming addiction. How to lift yourself off the streets.

Stephen Smith
The Meadow Across From Time Part I - Magical Realism, paranormal fiction
The Haunting of Memphis Pearle Part II: Acts 3 & 4; The Reckoning – the continued saga of Memphis Pearle, a dark fantasy

Caroline Giammanco
Inside the Death Fences: Memoir of a Whistleblower – True Crime about teaching inside a prison.
Bank Notes Revisited: The Updated True Story of the Boonie Hat Bandit – True Crime about Keith Giammanco known as the Boonie Hat Bandit.

CK Timber
The Merge -Time Travel Adventure
Dark ‘N Stormy Seas – A paranormal historical fiction based on the rum trade in Bermuda 1830s

John LeMay
Billy the Kid & The Ballad of the Boy Bandit King 1881 – A fiction account of Billy The Kid after his famous jail break. Includes New Mexico mythology

Ben Rose
Found Family - Rising from the streets and conquering addiction. A fiction based on true events.
Everybody But Us – Gay romance fiction based on life on the streets and overcoming addiction.

Jesse Bond
Cabernet & Desires of the Dead - A Paranormal Gay Romance
The Timber Man – A thriller