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THE RESISTANCE TRILOGY
Two award-winning novels and one new arrival Rocked in Time!


Author Charles Degelman sets all three volumes of this trilogy in the resistance movements of the 1960s and '70s. Each novel explores a different world of rebellion, and each novel celebrates those who dare to buck the system.

Volume III, Rocked in Time now available on the lit scene. Click here!






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ROCKED IN TIME
The Resistance Trilogy, Volume III

Rocked in Time slips behind the scenes of a blasphemous theater company hell-bent on toppling America’s Vietnam-era establishment with punch lines, pratfalls, and comic rebellion.

Along the way, our protagonist pursues a love for the stage, a passion for resistance, and a sexual revolution amid the tear-gassed campuses and burning cities of a nation at war with itself.
 

Read the Confessions of a Radical Theater Artist

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A BOWL FULL OF NAILS
The Resistance Trilogy, Volume II    

Finalist, Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction
Bronze Medalist, Independent Publishers Book Awards


Volume II offers a fast-moving tale full of humor, action, and espionage in a rollicking account of America's rebellious, back-to-the-land counterculture. 

A Bowl Full of Nails, draws on the author's life as a political theater worker, antiwar activist, carpenter, communard, and counterculture gypsy while he explores the intricate dance between the personal and the political. 


Published in 2015 by Harvard Square Editions

A Bowl Full of Nails — an audio excerpt by the author

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GATES OF EDEN 
The Resistance Trilogy, Volume I    

Silver Medalist, Independent Publishers Book Awards 


A 60s tale of resistance, rebellion, and love...

Gates of Eden follows a handful of young rebels as they band together to create the most powerful antiwar movement in history.

From their scattered beginnings through a surge to resistance, Gates’ colorful characters invite us to join them as they transform “hell no, we won’t go,” into a celebration of collective action, shared consciousness, sexual revolution, and the realization of their dreams.


Published in 2012 by Harvard Square Editions

Gates of Eden — the author reads an audio excerpt 

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 Retrospect
                                   Think back, share forward


I write short-short stories for this unique literary site. These stories draw on my own experiences and reflections, but who knows where memoir ends and fiction begins?

Current Favorites — Resistance

Given present circumstances,  the tales below might remind us that we never stopped resisting. Mas o menos, we've been here before, done that, ready to do it again. 


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"Midnight Shift at the Bulletin"
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"Digger Bread"
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"Do you, Mister Jones..."
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"Stanley Mouse & the Little White Pill"
  More Retrospect tales






Traveler's Tales
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Los Mechanicos  Published by Travelers Tales in Cuba, an anthology of true stories, dreams, and impressions

I wrote this story as part of a collection of impressions I gathered during a Cuban – American writers conference held in Havana. It was my second trip to Cuba, the first being a journey with Indecent Exposure, a theater company.

Cuba can be confusing to Americans. The 60-year, U.S.-imposed blockade, el bloqueo as the Cubans call it, has created an illusory curtain of romance, suspicion, and myth about the island, its people, its government and culture. Americans have funny impressions of Che and Fidel, Cuban cigars, rum... and its vintage American cars.

I wanted to massage a modicum of reality into the oft-repeated romantic notions Americans have of Cuba and I chose its resurrected American autos as... yes, my vehicle for doing so.


Read "Periodo Especial," another short story in my collection of Havana Sketches...