Master of the Welded Bead

Download or read book Master of the Welded Bead written by Kit Cain and published by Christopher Cain. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Diamond is a master welder whose menial profession at the Morgan River Shipyard gives little indication of his talents, education, training, and capabilities. A well-educated, ex-marine pilot, Jack went through flight training years before with the shipyard's owner and CEO, Don Hendrix, but the two old friends find themselves at opposite poles of consciousness in later life. Jackie is pro-labor, Hendrix is pro-Hendrix! Jack does not play Hendrix' power game. He has much more subtle powers of his own ... powers he himself does not fully understand, but which he has learned to use to bring some semblance of balance into a sometimes seemingly unjust universe. Jack's home is in the captain's cabin of a derelict coastal freighter, renamed the Land Lady, hauled out high and dry in the shipyard's scrap yard. Jack has friends from all walks of life--not the least of whom are a number of town characters who seem to emerge from the woodwork with a bottle of wine and a joi-de-vivre not at all characteristic of their breed. They seem able to throw off the bondage of their social position long enough to enjoy life--with Jack's considerable help--in ways that only a partially inebriated imagination could produce. Through the indirect help of another friend, T-Bird, a tribal Indian, Jack manages to save the shipyard from bankruptcy, but not in any way that could easily be imagined.