The Mathematician

By Mike Bozart

The author visits an interesting 'numbers man' on a December afternoon in Charlotte after a car crash. The conversation branches out and curls back. Kat Da'dy presages the affair. Dwight Clark's famous NFL catch gets caught in the word salad.

Approx. 2600 words.

Ok for all ages.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Bozart
• Release date: Jan 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463738948

Mike Bozart

Mike Bozart was born in the tidewater area of Virginia (US Navy kid) on a hot afternoon in 1964. He attended a mix of public and Catholic grade schools. After graduating with an Earth Science degree from UNC-Charlotte in 1986, he started doing safety technical writing.Former residences in North Carolina include Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington, Carolina Beach, Etowah and Asheville. Charlotte is his current residence. He has also lived in downtown San Francisco (early '90s).Mike has written numerous surreal poem-stories and over a dozen 1500-word quasi-real short stories under the psecret psociety heading. Gold, his first novel, was rough-drafted in just 27 days during a seven-week period (May 23 – July 11, 2013).Mike's first novella was To Morrow Tomorrow (2014); his second was Mysterieau of San Francisco (2015).Mike does artwork under the nom de brosse of m. van tryke.The author is happily remarried (Sharon) with a son (Kirk).

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The MATHEMAT1C1AN by Mike Bozart (Agent 33) | Jan. 2020

The MATHEMAT1C1AN

by Mike Bozart

© 2020 Mike Bozart 

Late Saturday afternoon, December 14, 2019 in east Charlotte. A typical late-fall temperature of 55.4° Fahrenheit (13° Celsius) under partly cloudy skies. After watching the 120th Army – Navy (American football) game (Midshipmen 31-7 Black Knights) with the 61-year-old, Caucasian American visual artist known as Kat Da’dy at his Kilborne in the Woods condo, I moseyed my 55-year-old, back-aching frame over to single-family-residential, mature-tree-canopied Falmouth Road to check in with 62-year-old, Amerasian Mortimer, who was often referred to as