Well, the call to action in my previous post flopped like a fish on a sidewalk. I don’t understand it, but I’m going to soldier on. History doesn’t write itself.
My main character’s mentor is his Uncle Eustace. From time to time he is simply called Uncle U. Eustace served in World War I. During one of the battles he was captured by the German’s and remained a prisoner of war for some time. He was the subject of many unspoken chemical experiments. In 1919, the year Bill is born, Eustace is liberated from his POW camp. He prefers not to talk about what the German’s did to him, even to me. He’s now an angry individual and believes the world owes him something for all the misery the war put him through. He is harsh and aggressive to just about everyone he comes across. His main goal in life is to make money. He turns to the oldest profession in the world and sets up a bordello in his shotgun house.
Eustace lets his underachieving nephew work at the house of ill repute by washing the sheets and running the ledger one day a week. Bill started this work at the age of 15. Eustace is not at all happy when Bill spends his time with Anne Marie instead of working. He does teach Bill one lesson the young lad carries with him throughout the rest of the book.
Eustace could be the spitting image of Ebenezer Scrooge before Jacob Marley haunted him that fateful night. With a man that harsh as a role model, what does it leave in store for Bill? You’ll have to read the book when it gets published.
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What I’m Reading – Many readers I know like to inquire what their favorite author is reading. At the end of each blog post, I’ll let you know what I’m reading. I may not be a published author yet, but I hope my choice of reading material inspires you to read. I finished Karol Wojtyla’s Love and Responsibility this past week. The book lays the groundwork for his Theology of the Body. I haven’t picked my new book, but it’ll probably be a Carl Hiaasen book as I need a light read after the heavy and dense Love and Responsibility. I encourage you to read a variety of topics.