R.V. Roush
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| Publications by R.V. Roush |
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| A Case of the Jitters | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Norm Jitters is a basket case, a comically hyper-nervous securities analyst whose expectations are failed by the stock market, his parents, colleagues, psychiatrists, gurus, and sex surrogates. Desperately, he puts his faith in a placebo cure to achieve anxiety-free normalcy, quickly becoming addicted to �zorbing� and losing every vestige of social restraint and courtesy. Norm�s formerly exaggerated sensitivity to life�s uncertainties should have made him nervous about a colleague who frames him for a fraudulent takeover scam, or prepared him for fingerprinting, or made him foresee a bone crushing mugging in a bad neighborhood. Battered and broken from a car chase, both Norm and the woman he loves are attacked in the hospital by the villainous Brad Suersak. Norm�s dependence on the placebo cure receded, Norm fights off the attack and proves his innocence. Finally, he comes to see a middle ground between extremes in his nature and learns that answers to his anxiety problems lie within himself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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