Odyssey of Chaos by Alan Fleishman

Author:Alan Fleishman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alan Fleishman
Published: 2017-01-21T08:00:00+00:00

THAT WAS THIRTY years ago, but not a day goes by I don’t think about it. Two months later Mom and I went to live with Grandpa Deek in Scranton in a real house. I still live there with my wife Mollie and our daughters, Emily and Teri. It’s close to the school where I teach when I’m not busy writing detective stories and kids’ books. A few of them have been published, to good reception.

Mom lives with us. She went back to school and became a paralegal, a job she still works at and loves. They say she’s the best in Lackawanna County. I stopped looking for my real father soon after we moved in with Grandpa. Word has it that Sonny Schulman died in an Arizona prison many years ago. Mom never did find a new father for me, but I got something better - the best grandpa ever.

One afternoon he came home with a fat package in his hand. Inside was the first of the five children’s books he wrote in the last years of his life, each more successful than anything he’d ever written before. I stared at the book with that same awe I felt on the day my red bicycle first appeared. There on the cover was an illustration of a boy with dark hair and dark eyes who looked amazingly like me. The boy in the picture wore the same tan shorts and blue striped T-shirt I wore on the first day I met Grandpa. Big letters sprawled across the cover - Donnie and His Red Bicycle.

Now whenever writer’s funk paralyzes me, Grandpa appears. He points toward the book, which holds a place of honor on my bookshelf. I read the words on the last page and my funk fades away: Donnie got his red bicycle and something more - a grouchy old grandpa who loved him beyond all imagination.

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