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Tom Sheehan served in the 31st Infantry, Korea 1951-52, graduated Boston College in 1956 and worked 32 years at Raytheon Company, retiring in 1991. He's an avowed enthusiast of Boston-area sports teams at all levels. He has published 28 books; Epic Cures; Brief Cases, Short Spans; Collection of Friends; From the Quickening; The Saugus Book; Ah, Devon Unbowed; Reflections from Vinegar Hill; This Rare Earth & Other Flights. and the western collections The Nations, Where Skies Grow Wide, The Cowboys, Cross Trails and Beside the Broken Trail, published by Pocol Press, and Six Guns, Inc., by Nazar Look and two titles issued in 2016, ... Swan River Daisy and Jehrico.) The fourth Harry Krisman mystery novel, Vigilantes East, e-book format, is available from Hammer & Anvil Press, along with Murder from The Forum (hockey novel set in the old Forum), Death for a Lottery Foe and Death by Punishment, all e-books. He has multiple work in following publications: Rosebud, Literally Stories, Dm du Jour/ Danse Macabre, Linnet’s Wings, Serving House Journal, Eclectica, Copperfield Review, La Joie Magazine, Soundings East, Vermont Literary Review, Literary Orphans, Indiana Voices Journal, Frontier Tales, Western Online Magazine, Provo Canyon Review, Vine Leaves Journal, Nazar Look, Eastlit, Rope & Wire Magazine, In Other Words/Merida, The Literary Yard, Green Silk Journal, Fiction on the Web, The Path, Faith-Hope and Fiction, The Cenacle, etc. He has 32 Pushcart nominations, and five Best of the Net nominations (with one winner) and short story awards from Nazar Look for 2012- 2015, and a Georges Simenon Fiction Award. Books under consideration are Valor's Commission (collection, military stories), Back Home in Saugus (story collection), The Keating Script (a novel), Death for the Phantom Receiver (an NFL mystery) and three poetry collections: Small Victories for the Soul, To Athens from Third Base (a collection of sports poetry), and The Z Bomb. International magazine/network sites include Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Scotland, England, France. Romania and India. He was 2016 Writer-in-Residence at Danse Macabre Magazine in Las Vegas.