L.A. (Lower Arkansas)

By K.W. Hoffman

"Growing up as a kid in the 70's was great and the 80's were even better. We didn't have cell phones, Ipod's, Ipad's, or laptop computers, but we did have pay phones on the corner, the Atari 2600, Nintendo with Super Mario and the best music ever".

The year is 1986 in small town Arkansas and the typical boring summer turns to excitement, murder, sadness, trouble, and love for teen Devin Johnson and his group of friends. Devin tells his story of bikers, beer, babes, parties, pot, romance, fights and football during the summer and fall of 1986.

• Language: English
• Publisher: K.W. Hoffman
• Release date: Aug 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301705313

K.W. Hoffman

Kevin W. Hoffman Sr. AKAK.W. Hoffman has accomplished many things in life including father, marrying his Soulmate, former law enforcement officer, minister and had a semi-professional career as a Singer/songwriter, Entertainer/Impersonator, Actor and Author. He was born & raised in Monticello, AR & began performing classic country music locally in the 1990's while working full time. He performed as a Hank Williams Jr. impersonator from 2004-2007. In March 2007 he auditioned for ABC TV's "The Next Best Thing" in Orlando, FL and landed an appearance on National TV and he also appeared on Florida's WFTV 9 local news. His performances as Hank Jr. included shows in LA, MS, FL, IA and his home State of Arkansas. Friends and fans encouraged him to write and perform his own music. He submitted 3 original songs to Arkansas's most popular, Award Winning, Country Radio Station KSSN 95.7. He won their "Home Grown Artist" of the week (2-13-09) for his song"Out of my Mind" & it was played on the air. KSSN featured his songs "Your Everything In The World To Me", (that he wrote for his current wife), "Out of my Mind", and "Waiting Patiently" on their Home Grown Music section and played "Your Everything In The World to Me" on the air.K.W. Hoffman's Independent Music career as a singer/songwriter most memorable performances include the Songwriter Festival in Nashville, TN in June 2008. Featured Artist @ "The Poets Loft" Hot Springs, AR, & Counterpoint at N. Little Rock, AR. He has performed with various bands & musicians as well as solo at various public & private venues & events. His CD of original music "Acoustic Crossroads" as well as other recordings were available in internet stores. K.W. Hoffman is also a member of BMI and his music was published by Record Union & He was recruited by Dharma Records, a UK based Independent Record Label in April 2011. In (Aug. 2010) he was Runner Up in "Turtle Wax Jingle Contest" with his Jingle "Shine On" & he did receive a monetary prize for his efforts. K.W. Hoffman was selected as Musician of the Month July 2012 @ ETalent.comHe wrote a screenplay "They Call Him Jesus" in 2012 and published a book L A Lower Arkansas in 2013. He now lives with his wife and children in the Ozark foothills.He began writing and performing again in 2022 and was a finalist for ISSA's USA Male Video of the year for his song/video "Runaway"Filmography2007 “The Next Best Thing” on ABC as Hank Williams Jr.2007 WFTV 9 Orlando, FL as HanK Williams Jr.2011 "Mud" Written & Directed by Jeff Nichols, Starring Reese Witherspoon & Matthew McConaughey - (K.W. Hoffman extra non speaking role) (Filming) Release 2013Related Websiteshttp://www.reverbnation.com/kwhoffmanhttp://www.youtube.com/kwhoffman1http://www.kssn.com/new2/artists/i/284768http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2952917/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1007641/

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L.A. (LOWER ARKANSAS)

K.W. HOFFMAN

Published by K.W. Hoffman at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 by K.W. Hoffman

Prologue

PROLOGUE

Growing up as a kid in the 70's was great and the 80's were even better. We didn't have cell phones, Ipod's, Ipad's, or laptop computers, but we did have pay phones on the corner, the Atari 2600, Nintendo with Super Mario and the best music ever.

The year is 1986 in small town Arkansas and the typical boring summer turns to excitement, sadness, trouble, murder and love for teen Devin Johnson and his group of friends Scooter, Tony, Mac, Bobby, David, Kat, Karen and Lisa. Devin tells his story of bikers, beer, babes, parties, pot, romance, fights and football during the summer and fall of 1986

CHAPTER 1: THE PARTY

TONY’S HOUSE: JUNE 6, 1986

The summer of ’86 started out like any other summer in our small town of Monticello, which was located in Southeast Arkansas. Some people would even joke and call it L.A., which meant Lower Arkansas.

Tony Baxter had been my best friend since birth and we were like brothers. Tony’s parents were away on a four-day motorcycle trip riding Harley’s to Memphis. School had been out for a week now and we hated to think about going back for our Junior year. Since we had always had parties at Tony’s when his parents were away, we decided that this would be the perfect time for our first party of the summer.

We started the night out cruising for girls in my black 1977 Trans-Am with David, Mac, and Bobby tagging along. We made the usual circle around town with AC/DC blasting out of my Pioneer speakers.

We talked to a few girls and some more friends from school and told them we had a keg of beer and would be having a party at Tony’s house. After about an hour we were back at Tony’s house priming the keg as a couple of cars were already pulling up. The party got out of hand as usual, for what started out as seven or eight friends drinking beer soon became a full blown party with just about everyone from age 13 to 33 showing up and drinking anything that had alcohol in it. Pot smoke filled the air like a dust storm in Phoenix, and after the keg was dry the party died.

Bobby was never one that could hold his liquor and was so drunk he had pissed his pants and began to show his ass by exposing his little weenie to what few girls were still there. Tony was madder than hell and he demanded that Bobby leave. Bobby said, Kiss my ass Tony Baxter, I ain’t going nowhere! Tony pushed Bobby and Bobby took a swing at Tony and missed. Tony pushed Bobby again and Bobby ran out of the house with Tony on his heels.

Bobby ran to his truck and reached under his seat and came up with a hunting knife about ten inches long. Tony told Bobby, If you cut me, you better kill me, because if you don’t, I’m kicking your ass! Tony asked Bobby to give him the knife. Bobby was so drunk he just stood there staring Tony in the eye and swaying back and forth. Finally, Bobby threw the knife to the ground, which stuck in Tony’s boot.

Tony pushed Bobby back against his truck seat and hit him about seven or eight times in the face with his fist. Bobby left Tony’s house cussing us all and bleeding from his nose and mouth as he smoked the tires on his old Dodge truck while backing out of the driveway.

The sun was coming up, so I headed home. My mom was up drinking coffee and asked where I had been all night. I told her I had spent the night over at Tony’s. She wasn’t pissed at me or anything, but she gave me the usual, call me and let me know where you are routine.

I went on to bed and right in the middle of my dream