CHAPTER 3 After Sunday dinner, Mykel loaded his stuff into the trunk of his 1960 Chevy Impala and got ready to leave for his second semester at Show Me State College. His grandparents told him goodbye. “Do you have the highway emergency kit I gave you?” “Yes, Grandpa. It’s in the trunk.” His mother hugged …
CHAPTER 2 The Greyhound pulled into the bus depot in Lemming, Missouri. Mykel Daring got off and looked around the parking lot, still wet with melting snow, for his mother’s 1963 Buick Electra. “Mykey!” a familiar woman’s voice shouted from across the parking lot. It was his mother, standing by her car, waving for him …
The heavy, walnut door swung open and Mykel Daring walked into his office at the university. He threw his keys on his desk, in front of the framed photo of his grandchildren, and then place his mail next to it, so he could prop the door open with the rubber stopper. He then flipped on …
Here is an article I wrote for my other blog on this story & the story from the Springfield Daily News. https://newadventuresofdesdinova.blogspot.com/2012/07/note-this-was-originally-posted-on.htmlml
Mykel drove Route 66 into Springville, Missouri, until he came to Federal Avenue, then turned left and headed to the Chester Ambrose Bonner Residence Hall at Show Me State College. He parked as close as he could to the back lobby doors, because he knew his record player and new TV would be heavy. He …
Mykel Daring is a college professor and announcer for the NPR affiliate. He is about ready to retire. He receives a letter from a young man from Springville, Missouri, who visits sick children, dressed as Batman, in the local hospital. He then tells Mykel that he is the nephew of his freshman-year, college roommate, Clint …
My name is Jeff Boggs and i live in Springfield, Missouri. I am an aspiring writer. I have a B. S in Electronic Media and a B. A in English from Missouri State University. I am working on a novel entitled Dynamic Duo of the Ozarks. It is based (very loosely) on two true stories …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 