This is a work in progress. I iterate it a few times a week, and I appreciate constructive feedback. I’m writing a narrative memoir, a story told with dialogue and character development, like a novel, centered around my grandfather and mother.

It’s a long story with too many names and history lessons for most people to enjoy or for me to write, so I’m focusing on a narrative memoir that delves into my family’s personalities and tells a bigger story through our dialogue and excerpts from court records, news articles, and books (I’ve read and notated probably around 50 of them, and I wouldn’t subject you to anything but the most relevant quotes). I’d like whatever I end up writing to be easily adapted to visual media, whatever that will look like in the future.

Contact me to collaborate.

Preface

Part I: Spring of 2019

  1. 28 February 2019
  2. 01 March 2019, Part I
  3. 01 March 2019, Part II
  4. 01 March 2019, Part III
  5. 01 March 2019, Part IV

Part II: 1972-1990

  1. Wendy & The Eight-Inch Scar
  2. My Dad & Stretch Armstrong
  3. Big Daddy & Mamma Jean
  4. Stevie Nicks & The Magic Castle
  5. Richard Prior & Spider Man
  6. Rambo & The War on Drugs
  7. Wrestling Hillary Clinton
  8. War and Peace

Part III: Spring of 2019, continued

  1. Stand Up Bass
  2. Guantanamo
  3. The Old Man & the Kennedy Half Dollar
  4. Math & Magic in a Havana Middle School
  5. Homeward Bound
  6. 05 April 2019
  7. 12 April 2019

Lagniappe