Supermale's Gone and Left Us [Kindle Edition]

Bob Frey (Author)

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The Straw That Broke Supermale’s Back

How much can a man, especially if he is a superhero, take? Striped searched and sent to the pokey as an illegal alien. Locked up with liars, thieves, and murderers and treated as a common criminal by the warden and prison guards alike. Scorned as a snitch and Boy Scout by the other inmates, Supermale, the defender of truth, liberty, and the American way of life, declines to escape since it would be breaking the law and send the wrong message to America’s youth. Finally, since his country of origin no longer exists and the authorities have no place to deport him to, the super patriot is declared a national security threat and detained at Gitmo Bay as an enemy combatant.

Is that the final straw that breaks the superhero’s back or is there more? At any rate, Supermale’s gone and left us. How does that bode for the future of the United States and the free world?

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 59 KB
• Publisher: Van Fleet Books (December 4, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004F9PA7K
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #621,303 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Bob was born and raised in a blue-collar neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A street kid, he spent several summers on his own with his good friend, Jimmy Malloy, in beach towns in New Jersey where they worked as dishwashers and countermen, panhandled the boardwalk, and slept in the Caterpillar, an amusement park ride, in between jobs.
On graduation from high school where he played football, Bob again took off with a couple of friends, one a gigolo, and the other a pool hustler, and bummed around for a couple of years in New York City and New Jersey Beach resorts. He returned to Philadelphia and worked for a spell in a shipyard before he joined the U.S. Navy in order to avoid the draft.
In the navy, he was trained to be an electronics technician and one of his jobs was flight deck troubleshooter for a fighter squadron on the U. S. Midway. Always a rebel, he was court marshaled for direct disobedience of orders while on the Midway, busted to the rank of airman, and given fourteen days hard labor. He did get to see a lot of Europe, however, as well as Cuba and Haiti. and was honorably discharged.
After military service, hoping to become an actor, Bob was accepted into the Drama Department of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on the G.I. Bill of Rights. He was kicked out for being a bad one, however, after his sophomore year. Nevertheless, he did fall in love while there and was married shortly after. He finished his schooling by attending classes at Columbia University in New York City during the day and loading trucks by night to support himself and his family and graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing.
Using the knowledge of electronics he had learned in the navy, Bob's first writing job was turning out technical manuals for electronic equipment. From there, he parlayed this experience to become a promotional writer for a medical company in Columbus, Ohio, and eventually a copywriter for a couple of advertising agencies in Los Angeles and received several awards for his creative work.
While in L.A., Bob returned to his first love, acting, as a side career and was good enough to appear in more than forty independent films and stage plays. His favorite roles were heavies, such as mafia hit men, eccentrics, serial killers, and other edgy characters. He originated the role of Daddy, a flippant ghost, in the stage comedy, Hazing the Monkey. Bob is now retired and lives in the great Northwest with his wife, Susan.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Come Back Supermale, April 4, 2011

By 

Jean Bartlett (Monroe, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Supermale's Gone and Left Us (Kindle Edition)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

The title had me curious, but the book kept me turning the pages.

It's a rather short, satiristical look at the "old school" male and the fact that he no longer has a place in our society.

The Ward Cleavers and Ozzie Nelsons of yesterday are a dying-if not dead-breed.

I see parts of my father in Supermale!

Highly recommended!

3.0 out of 5 stars Why would Supermale leave?, December 23, 2010

By 

J. Saunders "gjswriter" (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Supermale's Gone and Left Us (Kindle Edition)

Genre: Fiction - Satire

Title: Supermale's Gone and Left Us

Author: Bob Frey

Why would Supermale leave? The superhero, the man of steel who defends us all from crime and evil? Leave us without his protection. Without so much as a `sorry I have to go' or even a simple explanation as to why. Perhaps this short story will give you a clue.

Supermale's Gone and Left Us tells the story of how the perfect male; an honest man without flaws or faults, falls from grace. A victim of his own goodness. The premise is that Supermale has fallen foul of Homeland Security. It seems he is in reality an illegal alien, and they want to deport him. Being an alien, and being the fact that his home world was destroyed, he has nowhere to be deported to. So, after a battle through America's legal system, Supermale is thrown in jail. At this point the reader is left with many `why' questions, but I will only answer the most obvious. How could they keep him in jail and why didn't he just break out? He is the man of steel after all, able to leap tall buildings, stop a locomotive, fly. It seems Supermale is also a law abiding citizen, albeit an alien, and would never break a law, or a court order, or a sentence handed down by a judge, so he meekly accepts his fate and is shipped off to prison. From here the story moves to solitary confinement, not for his protection, but to protect the other inmates from harming themselves while attacking him. Then there is the diagnosis of schizophrenia and Supermale's obvious messiah complex. After all, he says he comes from the sky to save the world, is more than human and could do and be anything he wants, yet he chooses to be the savior of the world.

The story moves on to the point where Supermale, a great threat to the country, is moved to Guantanamo Bay, and is incarcerated there. Of course the next step is a threat to national security that only Supermale can solve. He is released, once again saves the day, and you would think all was right with the world. But that is not to be, so in frustration he leaves us all behind and in doing so leaves the world open to a threat that is far worse, and from which we now have no protection.

I have tried not to give away the whole story, but never forget, this is a satire. Written in a rough style, it is intended as a dissertation on the stupidity of political correctness, politics, laws that on the surface attempt to protect but in reality erode our rights, and worst of all, make it easier on our enemies, all in the name of liberalism. As I said, it is written rough and a lot is packed into its 44 pages. But if you like satirical writing and want to search for the meaning underneath, give it a try. Supermale will at least leave you shaking your head.

Reviewed by reviewer Gregory J. Saunders, Allbooks Review, [...]

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