8. High in the Clear Air

Story Codes: Reflections on a Lifetime Writing Novels

As the decades have ticked by, one day in the life resides high in the clear air above all the others. Critical to my youth, to be sure, yet in retrospect, although I could not have known it then, the day was integral to my future life as a writer. Two sleeps following my fourteenth birthday, I left home. A more serious wander than those at the age of t…