Tale of Johnny Ray

Dear Faithful Reader,
I'm afraid there will be no more for a while. As much as I enjoy doing this, I have work piling up.
Imagine what 250 pages of a paperback novel looks like.
Well that's about how much editting and rewriting I have to do just to get up to this point. Hopefully that won't take the nine months it has taken thus far to produce what you see here.(To be fair, I was able to squeeze in two other short stories , as well) It is mostly grunt work, retyping into a different format etc. Doesn't require much imagination, but I have no one else to do it for me. Besides, I want to do it all myself anyway. That way, no matter what I hear from my agent, it's all on me.
When I get to where I left off, I may simultaneously post here as I write new material into my final draft.
Hard to believe this all started on 8-24-09, but it has been worthwhile for me and thanks to everybody here that offered encouragement, it has been very rewarding.
Once again, thank-you all so very much.
Sincerely,
Richard

 

I should have presented that one better. I initially was making a post about a long trip and just kinda got started and couldn't stop. The actual name of that story is "DARLINGTON". The main character is a younger version of the guy in "SHARK KILLER", which is on here also.
I have thought about doing a few more of those and combine them in a collection of short stories.
Hopefully, I won't be gone too long and I can update you on Johnny Ray. I know I'm not supposed to give away the story, but I will tell you this much. Johnny makes it home from Viet-Nam alive and starts on a different journey.