Shadyside

By Mike Bozart

The author has a chance conversation with a lone bagel-bakery worker on a cold Sunday morning in Pittsburgh. The topic of virtual games comes up. Apparently one involves all of the Steel City's neighborhoods.

Total word count (including text in the embedded tables): 3030.

Rating: G (ok for all ages).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Bozart
• Release date: Jan 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005309060

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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