Writing for the Welfare Client: Afdc Forms and Their Messages

Hanna, James

J S Hanna House

On November 23, 2000, one hundred inmates hold twelve guards hostage in the laundry dorm of The Indiana Penal Farm. Emergency squads are massed along the fence, awaiting the order to attack, while sharpshooters are perched like crows on top of the administration building. Tom Hemmings, a dorm counselor, has been conscripted to defuse the standoff.  But the inmates are divided into rival gangs, the guards into feuding unions. And the prison administration has sparked the standoff by forcing cut-rate services upon the facility. As he enters the prison, Tom's heart starts to hammer. Who are the good guys? Who are the bad? And how will this nightmare end?

The Siege: A Prision Uprising Redefines Justice

Literature & Fiction

Sand Hill Review Press

On November 23, 2000, one hundred inmates hold twelve guards hostage in the laundry dorm of The Indiana Penal Farm. Emergency squads are massed along the fence, awaiting the order to attack, while sharpshooters are perched like crows on top of the administration building. Tom Hemmings, a dorm counselor, has been conscripted to defuse the standoff. But the inmates are divided into rival gangs, the guards into feuding unions. And the prison administration has sparked the standoff by forcing cut-rate services upon the facility. As he enters the prison, Tom's heart starts to hammer. Who are the good guys? Who are the bad? And how will this nightmare end?

The Siege: A Prison Uprising Redefines Justice

GOLD MEDAL WINNER-GLOBAL BOOK AWARDS 
WINNER-INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS 
FINALIST-BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS\n"If you're reading my book, I'm gonna consider you my friend. It ain't like you gotta meet me 'cause I'm kind of a bad influence, but if you keep me at a distance, you could probably be my friend."\nBuffeted by this cheery outlook, Gertie McDowell, a naïve young girl from Turkey Roost, Kentucky, pens her diary-a series of bizarre misadventures that take her from starring on a foot fetish site in Los Angeles to hustling bets as a mechanical bull rider in Texas.\nFrom serving a stint in West Virginia's Alderson Prison, because she "trusted the wrong kind of fella," to getting sold into white slavery. But perhaps her crowning mishap is seeking the ping-pong championship of San Francisco's Chinatown-all while hiding out in the Witness Protection Program. A zany yet tender book that will have you laughing out loud.

The Ping-Pong Champion of Chinatown

Humor & Satire

Fact Check and More Probing Tales is the third anthology of previously-published short stories by award-winning James Hanna. Stories range from an air-headed farm boy who is adopted by a beautiful bird that squawks "Fact check" whenever the boy gets into an untenable situation ("Fact Check"). Another is about a struggling writer who pens a maudlin book to mock his critics, but the joke turns septic when the book becomes a bestseller ("The Land Fish"). These are among twenty-two aberrant stories penned by James Hanna. This author is known to penetrate the human comedy while offering pathos, irony and hard laughter.

Fact Check and More Probing Tales

Literary