STOLEN IN PARIS: The Lost Chronicles of Young Ernest Hemingway: Ridin' the Rails: 1916

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.

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...

• Language: English
• Publisher: David Wyant
• Release date: Aug 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476201108

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 12: Riding The Rails: 1916

Published by David Henry Wyant at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 David Henry Wyant

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Ridin' the Rails

Chapter 2: The Cinder From Hell

Chapter 3: Doc Knows Best

Chapter 4: Dear Mom and Dad

Chapter 5: The Challenge of Melting Ice

Chapter 6: Freudian Psychology

Chapter 7: The Trouble with Throat Trauma

Chapter 8: Guardian Angel at Work

Chapter 9: Young Runaway Ernie Hemingway's Empirical Findings

Chapter 10: The Wandering Mind

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Chapter 1: Ridin' the Rails

Suppose I could've asked Mom or Dad for train- fare. Suppose I could've just started walking. Suppose I should've left a note on my pillow as to where I was headed, but actually I didn't know for sure which direction. All's I really knew for sure was that the open road was calling me. No jobs were available, school was closed down due to bankruptcy and failed economy.

Feelin' pressure to become a man and the yearning for freedom, guess all these issues got me running to catch that rolling gondola car's, cold- steel, handrail.

When I heard that lonesome whistle, and saw billowing black smoke with white steam clouds rising in the distance, that was ticket enough for me.'Twas the lure of the wide open- road to nowhere and anywhere; yet, nowhere in particular, that attracted me.

When a teenager has four testy sisters and a screaming baby brother, a naggin' mother and a father always at work, these issues can serve as a good springboard—a jettison which gives a good sendoff, a launching pad to get his feet a' moving fast away, away from grief and strife and city life, toward a hope-filled horizon... far, far, away.

Thought about the army but they want an able -body that can see. Probably flunk the eye exam. Inheriting Mom's bad eyes. All this hometown grief left me running to hop that freight, running from a bad situation into the dawn of a new life, running to a life filled with adventure, a life on my own, a life of freedom.

All these thoughts had entered my mind, not all at once, but like a slow-starting symphony by Mozart. Each week prior to my run seemed like an adagio of self-doubt followed by the minor modes of sentimentality that'll ruin a guy's ambition for accomplishin' anything.

Kids at school will talk, of that I have no doubt. I can hear them now, "Oh, my! Did you hear about