Jerry Hooten

The Pension Plan    by Jerry Hooten
Price: $0.99 USD. 15910 words. Published on August 9, 2011. Fiction.
75 yrs old. Korean War Vet. Retired. Suffers from Arthritis. Widower: Wife Ruby, deceased after fighting cancer for 10years. Treatments and doctor bills took all their finances. Had to take out a second mortgage. Retirement package was invested in company bonds that went belly up, now tries to get by on Social Security. Drives 10 year old pickup truck. Balding on top, brown eyes. Still

Hunter    by Jerry Hooten
Price: $0.99 USD. 38140 words. Published on August 9, 2011. Fiction.
Like a chess game. Each move requires a counter move. Sacrifices are made until the final moves lead to a checkmate, or worse, a stalemate. Hunter Security is involved in a chess game with a group of criminals after a big score. Each side is pretty evenly matched, but Hunter Security is on the defensive, and that is not a position of power. Moves and counter moves until the game is over.

Friends and Others    by Jerry Hooten
Price: $2.99 USD. 39110 words. Published on June 5, 2010. Fiction.
Ben grows up with a birth defect in a single parent home. It is a lonely childhood and he does what many children in that situation do. He creates an imaginary friend named Theo. Theo stays with him into his high school years, and then disappears after Ben is hospitalized after a car accident. In his senior year at college, he encounters big problems. Ben is depressed. Then Theo returns.

Dead End    by Jerry Hooten
Price: $3.99 USD. 31400 words. Published on December 2, 2009. Fiction.
Sequel to “Don’t Talk to Strangers” In the parking lot of a bar in Sturgis, South Dakota, Glen has just put Roger Wardlow in the back of the camper after stabbing him in the chest with the hunting knife he used on his wife and her boyfriend. We go to Katrina’s hurricane survivor camp. Identities are there for the taking. Do all roads lead somewhere? Or are some dead ends?

Don't Talk to Strangers    by Jerry Hooten
Price: $3.99 USD. 50400 words. Published on November 11, 2009. Fiction.
Roger had never stolen anything or even thought of killing anyone. Things had been in a downhill spiral and he thought he had reached new lows. Life as he knew it is about to undergo a change. Today is the first day of the rest of his life.