Mostly True Tales
And Otherwise Preposterous Accounts
by Paul Kennedy Mueller

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A gas-station attendant waits wistfully for a mysterious young woman in a Mustang; astronauts find a promising, but curiously empty, planet; a modern corporation enjoys an eye-opening transformation; and an Irish lass gains enduring fame in post-colonial Pennsylvania: These and other “preposterous accounts” await readers who appreciate a wry angle and a wicked wit in this eclectic collection of stories.

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Paul Kennedy Mueller works as a senior public information officer for the University of California at San Diego. A well-traveled Army brat – the second of nine children – and a Vietnam veteran, he worked as a grease-monkey, bartender, school-bus driver, journalist, technical editor, proposal coordinator, university lecturer, and director of corporate communications before his current position in academe. Author of “The Pandemonium Bar & Grill,” “Pretty Bad Stories,” and other short-story collections, he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at Penn State University and has published poetry in regional and national journals. He and his wife, Clare Marie Kristofco, an associate chancellor and chief of staff, live in San Diego.

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