This was featured on a Tumblr I follow called Batman On The Cover. It is a compilation of old Batman comic book stories for readers in Brazil. It was from 1965, right before Batmania happened in the United States.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Most of the characters that inhabit Mykel’s life in the radio business were either modeled after someone I worked with or are a composite of people I have worked with in the radio industry. The two exceptions would be Saul Ketner, Mykel’s boss, who had been an actor during the Golden Age of Radio. He …
NEW NOTE: I’m happy to report that this sneak peak chapter has received several hits, according to the stats provided by WordPress and Jetpack. I noticed that in my haste to post this in time for Valentine’s Day three years ago, I had some typos, as well as I have since changed the name of …
January 25, 1966, would be an important day in Mykel Daring’s life. The start of a long up and down career that he would be lucky enough to continue into his seventies, when his colleagues had given up or died. At seventeen, he was just interested in getting college credit and a foot in the …
CHAPTER 11 “Do you think you are ready for that test?” Slick asked Clint as they ate breakfast in the cafeteria Monday morning. “I’m never ready for a test, but I have to take it,” Clint answered. “I drilled you enough in study hall yesterday, you should be able to pass it,” Slick tried to …
CHAPTER 10 Clint had informed Mykel that he attended the Ecumenical Center Chapel Service, on Sunday mornings, at the Campus Union auditorium, which Mykel had no qualms with that. He was raised going to church every Sunday morning. Of course, Mykel was used to going with his mother in her Buick Electra to church. This …
WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS 