STOLEN IN PARIS: The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway: The Runaway

By David Wyant

The Lost Chronicles hits home with the teenage genius search for truth in all of us.

Ernest Hemingway's first wife lost a suitcase full of prized manuscripts on a trip home from Paris. These missing stories were never to be seen again. Who knows what literary classics that suitcase may have contained?

In the imagination of this author have been found those missing memoirs—a series of twelve exciting adventures, with more to come, found by way of "biographic fantasy noir." "The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway" unveil his earliest, most fascinating adventure stories, and monologues read like eaves-dropping while he unloads in his priest's confessional booth.The author imagines what the childhood and teenage life of Ernest Hemingway in Petoskey must have been like.

Young Ernest Hemingway is 11-years-old. Surrounded by a slew of sisters, an overbearing mother, and a timid father, Ernest finds companionship with the children in the Native Tribes of the region, which leads to an interesting summer full of lessons.

This stylish series of young adult novels reveals literary merit, fine design, and strong kid-relevance. Filled with unbridled Victorian romance, adventure, betrayal, parent-sibling drama, and tribal temptations tastefully presented like a cathartic, primal glimpse into one, very troubled, sub-conscious.

History comes alive in these historical adventure stories!

"The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway" is indeed the perfect platform on which to expose those early, deeply gnarled roots of America's most analyzed, literary bad boy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Wyant
• Release date: Jun 7, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476299624

David Wyant

David Henry Wyant, M.Ed. was born in Rogers City Michigan, just 60 miles directly east of Petoskey, along Lake Huron. He graduated with honors from RCHS in 1959 during a time when most young Americans strongly felt the need to do what they could to beat Russia into outer space. At seventeen, he drew rocket plans for NASA.A graduate of Concordia Univ. Chicago(BA) and Wayne State Univ. Detroit, MI,(MA), Mr. Wyant taught elementary school for 30 years specializing in Art. He worked on a team which wrote the state Art curriculum for Florida.Author Wyant currently enjoys visits with his daughter, Lisa Luebke (wife of Randall), five grandchildren and one great grandchild who all live nearby in Boyne City, Michigan. Experiencing Petoskey's north woods will never be the same after you read, "The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway." "The Town that Haunted Hemingway"..."Side Door to Heaven for Hemingway"Mr. Wyant's previous books were environmental in nature:"A Compilation of Poems", Landscape painting with words"My Petoskey Stones"(192 pages regional poems) Extolling the natural beauty of Petoskey, MI"The Town that Haunted Hemingway." Extensive research of Hemingway’s youth in Petoskey area."Art Curriculum, State of FL." What every child should know about Art, K-12Mr. Wyant is available for readings of his books, writer's workshops and readings of his unique regional poetry.

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STOLEN IN PARIS: The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway

Book 6: The Runaway

Published by David Henry Wyant at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 David Henry Wyant

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Runaway

Chapter 2: The Boxcar Fire

Chapter 3: Blisters for the Road

Chapter 4: An Unexpected Savior

Chapter 5: Hemmie Lends a Hand

Chapter 6: A Return to Charlevoix

Chapter 7: The Brewmaster Returns

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Chapter 1: The Runaway

Martha just turned 13, and thought she was a full- blown woman. Well, why not, she had her Jewish Bat Mitzfa, which celebrated her entrance into young Jewish womanhood, (Jewish boys have a Bar Mitzfa at 12 ) so, in her mind, it made sense to her. She felt she now had license to do what every other woman could do. Travel on a train.

One thing she always wanted to do was leave home, set out on her own, have an adventure, become independent, do whatever she wanted, freedom!

All she had to do was pack a pillowcase with some extra underwear and socks, put on her bib-overalls, a jacket, and cap, and hop a southbound freight train to Chicago.

My life here at home is miserable, Snowball, Martha intimated to her stuffed pure white toy kitten (sometimes called Kitty or just plain Puss).

Mother yells at me all the time. Father works 24 hours a day. I can't cut my hair. I want to be a 'flapper'- wear short skirts, garters, hair bobbed in spit curls. Look Kitty, we could dance the Charleston all night long, stay out til dawn. Take a little nip from my flask on my hip, snap my garter, snap my finger and have men buy me anything I want. Snap! Furs, diamonds, high heel shoes. Snap! Pearl necklaces. Snap! Fancy cars. Ohhh! That's the life for me, Snowball. That's the life for me!

She grabs a mirror, looks at herself, spins a 180 degree turn, holds a big handful of her long, shimmering, auburn hair up high, grabs a scissors, and begins to cut. She doesn't stop at her shoulder- length ...nooooo, she cuts right at the base of her skull. Before long, the bedroom floor is littered with