TWO NOVELS BY WILLIAM M. HANSON

STREETS OF TACOMA is a tale of two young men (Kid & Moon) growing up in the jazz scene of World War II. They are called cats. Kid is priest to the cats. His all powering will provides the form and structure on which the STREETS are streched. His friend, Moon, is the lyrical saxophonist. His music provides the whimsy and light on which we view TACOMA, the city on the sound.

Moon in "Song of the Streets" explains, "I'd watch the streets throw up a group of characters like note on a sheet of music, with its flats and sharps, with its majors and minors: then float a rhythm through it with its conpounding patterns of emphsis and duration. Last it would be hammered with a riff that says, "I'll kill you if you don't watch out." The riff would be repeated again and again 'til you ignored it; and then it would have you."