Capescape

By Mike Bozart

A jovial-turned-resentful discussion between two middle-aged men leads to Cape Arago from Coos Bay, where a surprise awaits.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Bozart
• Release date: May 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005316976

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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by Agent 33, transcribed in May 2021

Capescape

by Mike Bozart

© 2021 Mike Bozart

Sunday, the ides of May (2016), has laid diurnal claim to Coos Bay, Oregon. It is mostly cloudy and 59° Fahrenheit (15° Celsius) at 1:23 PM. On the small balcony of an A-frame-kit home on the north slope of unincorporated Glasgow, two middle-aged, scant-Scottish gents are having a piquant-devolving-to-acrid discussion.

"And remember that ultra-Applehead [sic] … oh, what the hell was his name? He was always going on and on about his latest Apple acquisition: the newest Mac, the just-released iPhone-x, the going-to-change-the-world-and-propel-humanity-twenty-light-years-forward gizmo. Bet he got a tattoo of the Apple logo