Old billionaire Harry OpDyke is dying. Harry needs help and he talks ex-convict Duncan Bakman into helping him with his last project of putting people on other planets. Harry, Bakman, and crew coerce, buy needed things, kidnap, rob, and even steal a spaceship to carry out Harry's project.During the age of tall buildings cities, illegal cloning, and one planet government, Meryl Runk gave billionaire Harry OpDyke an idea of how to put humans on other planets. Harry is old and dying, needs help, and talks ex-convict Duncan Bakman into helping him completed his last project. Together with a dedicated crew they coerce, bribe, buy needed materials, kill assassins, rob, kidnap, and even steal the government's spaceship to use as their project's transportation.

A collection folktales, fantasy, poems, science fiction, fiction, short stories, novella, personal narrative and and few grandpa stories told my grandson.A carpenter cuts a board to build with and leaves a small end piece. This piece is an end piece and goes in the odd end pile. Any carpenter worth his salt tries to use as many of these end pieces to reduce waste. As a writer I have collected up my odd ends in a book that includes folktale, fantasy, poems, science fiction, fiction, short stories, novella, personal narrative and a few grandpa stories told to my grandson.

The Chrane and Lundeen farm families had been friendly Minnesota neighbors for two generations until the Fergus Fall's fair board of directors decided to include watermelon judging in the 1926 Ottertail County Fair. Both Gus and Max raised watermelons as a summer cash crop and entered a watermelon. After the first blue ribbon, a buyer paid two-cents more per watermelon for the entire crop. During the depression years, more money was important to a family and made the competition to win blue ribbons more serious. Over the next thirteen years, each farmer won five blue ribbons. 1940 was a crucial break-the-tie year. Both Max and Gus were retiring and turning their farms over to the third generation and wanted to win one last blue ribbon to retire as Watermelon Growing Champion.