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    End of Summer
    End of Summer
    End of Summer
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    End of Summer

    By Michael Potts

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    A young boy. An old man. And a journey of the heart.
    My fraternal twin, Michael, died two hours after birth, drowning from fluid in his lungs. When I was two, my Mom and Dad were killed in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer. I was reared by Granddaddy and Granny, who had lived with my folks in the same rented home. I remembered neither my parents’ lives nor their deaths. I suppose that’s a blessing and a curse. My grandparents had provided details my young mind could understand, but I pushed them away. I did not want them.
    Back in that field after thirty years, I stood poised at the edge of an abyss.
    End of Summer is a poignant, literary novel that explores the mysteries of life, love and death through the eyes of a nine year old boy...interpreted by the man he grew to be.
    A deeply moving and passionate book, Michael Potts’ End of Summer is a poignant literary novel about childhood and memory. This is contemporary Southern fiction at its best. In textured language and with heartfelt attention to detail, Potts’ nuanced portrayal of rural life in southern Appalachia and a young boy’s initial encounter with death reminds us that life at the economic margins can be culturally and spiritually rich, and that even as absences and losses sometimes damage us, these can also strengthen and redeem.
    - Michael Colonnese, Ph.D.
    Author of Sex and Death, I Suppose
    and Temporary Agency

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWordCrafts Press
    Release dateNov 25, 2011
    ISBN9781465717399
    End of Summer
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    Michael Potts

    Michael Potts is the author of UNPARDONABLE SIN, a theological horror novel with a Lovecraftean twist, published by WordCrafts Press in 2014. WordCrafts Press also published END OF SUMMER, a Southern Fiction novel about a boy struggling with loss and faith, in 2011. Potts's poetry chapbook, FROM FIELD TO THICKET, won the 2006 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award of the North Carolina Writers' Network. His creative nonfiction essay, "Haunted," won the 2006 Rose Post Creative Nonfiction Award, also from the NC Writers' Network. His poems have been published in a number of literary journals. He is a 2007 graduate of MTSU's The Writer's Loft and a 2007 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop. A native of Smyrna, Tennessee, he currently serves as Professor of Philosophy, Methodist University, Fayetteville, North Carolina. He has married and has three cats: Frodo, Pippin, and Rosie.

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