Buggy: A Fictional Account of Generational Family Abuse

By T.J. Richards

Whether its physical or emotional mistreatment, neglect, or sexual molestation, the social impact of child abuse in America ultimately damages the core development of youththe emotional underpinning in the lives of young children growing up. Buggy is a hard reada blend of several fact-based events witnessed by the author during his early teenage years in the mid-1950s while growing up in a government housing project in Euclid, Ohio. Although the generational story is framed around three fictitious lives, including Tony, son of the abusive, mean-spirited Louie Bugno, himself a victim of adolescent abuse, the account of their livestold through their meeting in a hospital where Louie is dying of cancerserves as a reminder to all of us that child abuse exists. Let us never forget how much it weakens, undermines, and demoralizes the young lives it touches.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 27, 2018
• ISBN: 9781546225621

T.J. Richards

Tim Richards is a former Program 60 Ohio State student and began his sunset years education at Cleveland State University in 2005, while still employed. In 2000 he earned a master of financial services degree from the American College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Following a thirty-four-year career in the insurance business on Clevelands west side, he retired in 2008 and focused his field of study in the arts: creative writing, poetry, screen/playwriting, motion picture film and digital photography. With an associate of arts degree in photography from Los Angeles City College, Tim worked for six years as a commercial photographer prior to becoming an insurance agent. He served in the United States Army (Germany) from 1961-64 as section chief, artillery fire direction, and lives in Olmsted Twp., Ohio, with his artist wife, Betz. They have been married for more than thirty years and have two children and eight grandchildren.

Book preview

BUGGY

A Fictional Account of Generational Family Abuse

T.J. Richards

39154.png

AuthorHouse™

1663 Liberty Drive

Bloomington, IN 47403

www.authorhouse.com

Phone: [phone]

© 2018 Timothy J. Richards. All rights reserved.

[e-mail]

Edited by Jim Hogg

[e-mail]

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Published by AuthorHouse 03/24/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-2563-8 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-2561-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-2562-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018900880

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

ALSO BY T. J. RICHARDS

Afternoon Tomatoes

Accessible Poetry

Reader-friendly & Easy to Read

Ship Happens!

A Tiger Cruise Tale or

How to Spend Six Nights on a Navy Warship for $70

The Richards and Barry Families

The Genealogical and Personal History of the

Richards and Barry Families

of Cleveland, Ohio

Warm Water

A Collection of Memories

… beautifully written. The descriptive and emotion-evoking writing draws the reader close to the life of irascible Louie; the tragedy of his cancer and the bigger tragedy of Louie’s childhood that creates a terminal cancer in his soul.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth W. Chalker

[e-mail]

BUGGY

39225.png

A Fictional Account of

Generational Family Abuse

L

OUIE BUGNO BEGAN TO COUGH. It started with the usual tickle in his throat and then worsened to a hack. He had that hacking cough for the past year and claimed the paper dust he breathed in at work had caused it, but this time the hacking wouldn’t stop. It surprised him, as it did Tina, his ex-wife. They were arguing over a money matter through the screen door of the house where Louie used to live. Louie’s tough-talking attitude softened in an instant when he finally cleared his lungs and spat out a red clot onto the grass. Tina stepped back in horror, covering her mouth in shock.

Louie, what’s wrong with you?

The oncology ward nurse stopped by Louie’s room on the seventh floor. She was on her regular rounds, checking on the welfare of her patients.

How are you feeling, Mr. Bugno? she asked, as she entered the room.

Louie moaned, half awake.