WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS

A work-in-progress by Jeff Boggs

Saturday night was a SVSC Wolves Basketball home game. College basketball was the biggest event in Spring Valley. They were playing the Central Missouri State College Mules. Since it was early in the semester, Clint was in good standing with his grades so he was able to participate in the game. Mykel had never been …

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It didn’t make the Billboard Top 40, but it was on many Top 40 radio station’s hit surveys in the early part of 1966. It is well remembered as one of the great rock anthems of the Sixties. The Who’s classic “My Generation.” Here is a great video I found on YouTube with news reel …

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One of the complaints made against the excerpts of my novel, posted on Facebook, was that i mentioned “songs that people are not familiar with.” Granted, this person is in my age group and quite a few people, of my generation, refuse to listen to any music made before 1981. So, here is a playlist …

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The cafeteria in the Student Union was an adequate place to escape the snow and cold on that Thursday. Winter had struck the Ozarks with a hateful vengeance, as it had done in the rest of the United States. Everyone seemed to be in the mood for hot coffee and soup for their lunch. They …

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In the novel, there are things in the background that drive the characters. Mykel wishes to be able to prove himself and rub his success in the face of his former classmates from Lemming Pond. With Clint, the dark specter of being drafted and going to Vietnam hangs over his head. The dark specter that …

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