The dead—that is the perfect word for it

Today is the last day for preorder to get my short story 'A Summer of Change.' Tomorrow, December 27th, it is officially on the bookshelves for sale. Order your copy before the New Year. In the story something happens in January that changes little Richard's life forever. One would expect changes in the summer but not in January. Summers are where one changes from a sixth grader to a seventh grader. Summers are when one's very skin changes and gets darker from the sun. Summer is the time for change, not the dead of winter. The dead—that is the perfect word for it.

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       A Summer of Change is a nostalgic story that both rends the heart to tears and uplifts it to rise high above. 

      It’s 1979 and Dicky is a thirteen year old boy beginning middle school. There is no way he could possibly prepare for the multitude of changes in store for him. Especially the one that changes his life forever. It’s a change that left a scar on his life, one that would never completely heal. If you were to ask Dicky about it he would say, “I was just a boy, a child, really. But, that didn’t make my burdens light—quite the contrary. After that horrible event what was never spoken of in the light of day became weightier in the darkness of night. Why didn’t I know? I should have. Still, one never expects such changes could wait for them on the other side of dusk. No, I didn’t know that night was coming. Until then my life was all sunshine.”

Dicky’s tale is one of an ordinary boy living an ordinary life with an unordinary turning point.