Hi all, Thanks to everyone for the kind words about my stories. As I mentioned, I’ve had three stories lurking in my writer’s notebook for some time. I worked on them on and off while I was working (read struggling) with my third book-Keeper’s Justice.
The final one of the lurkers is "Nicholas’s Story". The idea came to me when I recalled a weekly AA meeting in my local detox/treatment center. There I met a woman, a nice middle aged woman who went from being a respected accountant to a homeless junkie in the space of four years, thanks to her doctor and the “miracle drug” Oxycontin. I have no idea if she was able to get sober, I pray she did. I grew up with several kids just like Nicholas some probably still in jail and some I hope made it out of that vicious downward spiral. Nicholas’s Story came out of a those memories and married a hint of the plot of Edgar Rice Burroughs book “The Mucker”. I do love a story of pain and transformation. I hope you enjoy it. The complete novel should show up on Bookapy and ZBookStore next week.
Pete