Money can’t buy happiness, but a disconnect notice from the electric company sure impedes its pursuit. Rarity from the Hollow is my debut novel. Its protagonist, Lacy Dawn, and I have a lot in common. We were both born into impoverished families in West Virginia, had occasional difficulty doing homework because our families couldn’t pay the electric bill, but neither of us ever lost faith that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
My father and Lacy Dawn’s father, Dwayne, also share a common background. Both fathers were popular in high school and played on their respective schools’ football teams. They each graduated and went into the military. Both came back from war with PTSD and had night terrors that they self-medicated with alcohol. …show more content…
Instilled by subcultural and familial values, Lacy Dawn was also a very hard worker in Rarity from the Hollow. She worked from daylight to dusk, afterschool, and during the weekends at the local marijuana farm. It was the only employer in the hollow, and a real-life economic development option considered by many small farmers after tobacco, their only cash crop, went sour. Rodger Belknap, an original Freedom Fighter and best friend of Steven Hager, the first Editor of High Times Magazine, still lives an hour away from my home, up a West Virginia hollow.
One of my greatest accomplishments, as well as my biggest guilt trip in life concerns my mother’s rotting teeth. These memories were incorporated into Rarity from the Hollow. Like my mother’s teeth, Jenny’s teeth rotted in the story. With the help of alien intervention, Lacy Dawn arranged for teeth implants. I’ll never forget when I’d saved up enough money to pay for my mother’s false teeth – the proudest moment of my life. Unfortunately, I will also never forget my guilt about having been embarrassed by my own mother because of her rotten teeth every time we were together in
My father and Lacy Dawn’s father, Dwayne, also share a common background. Both fathers were popular in high school and played on their respective schools’ football teams. They each graduated and went into the military. Both came back from war with PTSD and had night terrors that they self-medicated with alcohol. …show more content…
Instilled by subcultural and familial values, Lacy Dawn was also a very hard worker in Rarity from the Hollow. She worked from daylight to dusk, afterschool, and during the weekends at the local marijuana farm. It was the only employer in the hollow, and a real-life economic development option considered by many small farmers after tobacco, their only cash crop, went sour. Rodger Belknap, an original Freedom Fighter and best friend of Steven Hager, the first Editor of High Times Magazine, still lives an hour away from my home, up a West Virginia hollow.
One of my greatest accomplishments, as well as my biggest guilt trip in life concerns my mother’s rotting teeth. These memories were incorporated into Rarity from the Hollow. Like my mother’s teeth, Jenny’s teeth rotted in the story. With the help of alien intervention, Lacy Dawn arranged for teeth implants. I’ll never forget when I’d saved up enough money to pay for my mother’s false teeth – the proudest moment of my life. Unfortunately, I will also never forget my guilt about having been embarrassed by my own mother because of her rotten teeth every time we were together in