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FYI there will be a follow up story to Ninth Grade Rick Jackson

it will have an original title like, Tenth Grade Rick Jackson. There will be a hiatus between stories as I need to develop a buffer for weekly posting. I am hard pressed to do a chapter every week. With my travel I don't always complete a chapter a week. I started Ninth Grade with a six chapter buffer. I now have no buffer. Finished this weeks chapter around 6:30 a.m. this morning, now have to start next weeks and have ready while I still have to travel to FL work three days and back to MD. I suspect if I don't post that chapter on line, I will be lynched.

Some people puzzle me. Some readers worry about things that make sense to me. Like the reader that pointed out I used the word comprehensively when I really meant to say apprehensively. He is absolutely correct and I have corrected and reposted. That is helpful. BTW he sent with his real name.

Then there is the anon one who took issue with me subverting the Robin Hood legend for my own purposes. First of I am writing fiction, second what does LEGEND mean? No one knows, my truth is as correct as his. Besides everyone knows my stories are absolutely true give or take a lie or two.

Ninth grade, the Rick Jackson saga, was scheduled to be 39 chapters long. There will now be a 40th. I will go back and list the title and author of every book which Rick read. I started keeping good notes on the books around chapter 20. I hope I can figure out what the books were by my clues. I have read everyone mentioned.


To save a little pain, the books on economics other than The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith were not real. The facts are correct, I just used what I remembered from my economics classes.


Some of the extraneous characters met were not famous, but they were real. One of his sparring partners was a golden glove winner in California in the 1950's.


Did you figure out which member of the Dillinger gang lived in Bellefontaine after it was thought he was dead. All the clues are there.


General Patchett invented the machine gun made by Sterling.


I would like to thank one reader, whose name I have lost for Pearl Witherington. She was a real person and her exploits were as written and even more. A real hero.


In one case I did a reader a disservice. He spent a lot of time trying to find Ann from England and David from MIT. If you have checked it you will find that if a restaurant is named in the story then it was real and in business at that location in 1959. Hamburger Hamlet is one of those. Personal friends, Ann and David, from England and MIT actually ate there in 1959 so I placed them in the story.


For those who have noticed continuity issues, such as the British passport from Summer Vacation, thank you, I have been correcting them and reposting as I can.


Banadin

In my story I have my MC reading before he goes to sleep. I never give the author or the title, just a few pertinent facts. This has become a regular feature with people sending emails with the title or asking for the title.

In Chapter 31 I mention a story about a man and woman who start out as old and demented who regain their minds, and retrogress to their early twenties, physically. Do over on the body if you will. They will progress into the future.

I have had many requests for the story name. It is Ever and Always. The only problem it is only ninety percent done right now. I intend to finish it and post while starting Tenth Grade of Richard Jackson.

That is why my wife says I am evil.

There might be a lynching in the Richard Jackson story. A forever unnamed reader suggested the wall of hay being used for archery practice was put up in the honor of Fodder's Day, which is June 21, 2015 this year.