At a writers' awards ceremony an impromptu interview by Randal Poe exposes a reclusive national celebrity, although for Randal fame is diminished by love at first sight: poet Button Springfield hails from the same Appalachian crossroads where Delray Mabler has lived since his exit from the limelight. But in lusting after Button, Randal loses his notes and Mabler is found out. She offers him refuge on commune land owned by her parents who also rent a ridge top to a cult of stargazers whose agenda proposes a lunar rendezvous.Into this picture steps Baptist minister, August Tarbush, and FBI agent, Jack Riggs, whose cover as a real estate developer has aligned the two against the commune, but cult leader Argon Kirkcops is also under suspicion; one among those free spirits is the 60s radical bomber and cold case fugitive, Al Bannister.To reinvent oneself takes daring-do, perseverance, or outright lunacy, but it can unravel in a heartbeat. In the antics of The Ageless of Aquarius, few are who they claim to be and allegiance, and love too, is fickle. After graduating high school, other than a brief stint at Naropa Institute to study poetry with luminaries of the Age, Steven Mooney was for twenty years an unskilled laborer at construction sites and factories, and as custodian, garbageman, groundskeeper, seasonal firefighter, taxi/truck driver, earning just enough money for the books he devoured across the breadth of English and American literature. Tiring at forty of the shanty life he ventured to college and earned a Bachelor of Art in English, University of North Carolina, and a Master's in Education from East Carolina University where he first encountered ESL. For the next twenty years he taught English in Central America, The Far East, and the Middle East, then retired to the Pacific Northwest, USA, where he lives with his wife. He is the author of In Cellophane of Time, Poems 1973-1987; Kottke Ouevre Skookum, 6 and 12-string ears, Vignettes 1970-2019; and the comic literary novels: Cutlass Wonders, The Ageless of Aquarius, and Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict published under the series title: A Measure of Poe & Three Quarters. A Measure of Poe & Three Quarters presents Randal Poe in three quarters of his life. Cutlass Wonders introduces Randal and his firebrand father who disowns him. Randal outwits his sire but in so doing unleashes greed, back-stabbing rivalry, blind patriotism and radical animal-rights activism in a comic chain of events that end in his father's death. In The Ageless of Aquarius, journalist Randal Poe uncovers a reclusive celebrity in the same moment that he falls in love. The twin exposures lead to an Appalachian village that hosts an aging commune hippie and his nemesis, the local Baptist minister, one of who leads a double life as a cult leader and bank robber whose gang is planning a lunar rendezvous, unless an FBI agent posing as a land developer gets there first. In the third tale, Chronicle of an English Morpheme Addict, we find Randal as a speech therapist working with addicts of the itty-bitty rant. One of them claims to have been chasing her uncle for four-hundred years for his thefts of lexemes from the Time Continuum. Randal aids her search for the uncle, but when the hunters become the hunted, their greatest strength is their love of language

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