Alfred C. Martino – författare

Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane couldn't be more different—they come from different backgrounds, different lifestyles, and they have very different values and ways of looking at the world and dealing with people. Yet they both have the drive, determination, and commitment to self-sacrifice necessary to become a champion. In the end, though, only one will stand in the center of the mat with his arms raised in victory. Has each boy prepared enough? Sacrificed enough? Does each want to win enough? All the training, pain, running, and cutting weight ultimately comes down to a few short minutes on a wrestling mat—leaving one boy the victor, the other devastated.

Imagine for a moment, you’re Marcus Cooper.A slick stranger meets you in a bar. You're drunk. You talk a lot. Without you realizing it, he’s learning about you. Your desire for money and women. By night’s end, he makes you a million-dollar proposition to cause a drunk-driving accident.Sounds crazy to you? Maybe, maybe not.You’re out of work. Bills are piling up. You owe your bookie six grand. But mostly, you're twenty years removed from being the high school football hero you once were, doubting how much longer life is worth living.Do you take the chance?

Set in the mythical Wild West, an aging cowboy contemplates the passage of time, while vividly recalling a life's defining moment with Fiona Dresden, an older woman of his youth, and making his across the endless plains.

A whimsical short story, set at a Southern California university, about a grad school student who daydreams and pines for a beautifully exotic woman with long legs and magnificent hair sitting next to him in class.

A short story bubbled up from the grim and violent mean streets of 1990's Los Angeles, as the protagonist explains, sweat from the Southern California heat dripping onto his Glock, "I have never murdered and I have never been murdered. But I have dreamed of both."

You are closer to the end of your life than the beginning. Each passing day has you questioning what, if anything, your life has meant.Then, unexpectedly, your best friend, who died tragically when you were both kids in high school, shows up.What would you talk about?How would the conversation go?

In this short story, a traveling businessman settles into yet another motel room. This one just like every other one. Same dull curtains. Same faded wallpaper. Same stale stink. While the world moves on in a rush outside the motel door, he assesses his career and his life, asking, "Where am I?" 

Rio de Janeiro, a place of beauty, excitement, and wonder. A place where you are free to dance until your feet ache and sing until you can no more.A forty-something year-old woman and her mother experience this and more during their visit to Brazil's most famous city.

"The Boy And Girl" is a whimsical parable about a boy and girl, playing on a beach and building sand castles, learning about love, life and growing old together. Also available as an unabridged audiobook.

Requiem For An Athlete, a short story, is a somber look at the unfulfilled expectations of a once-great athlete, seeing through tear-clouded eyes the trophies and medals of a life long gone, wondering what's ahead for him.

At a upscale bar, a man notices from across the crowded room the woman of his dreams sitting alone. He can't let her get away. Smoothing his suit jacket, pulling his tie knot tight, he walks over to the woman and starts a conversation. Where does it go from there?

A Day At The Beach is about a man, overwhelmed by the stress of his job, who reluctantly takes a day off to sit at the beach. There he meets a little boy who changes the man's perspective about enjoying the simpler moments of life.