League of Mortals 11-20
Monday, March 15 2010
To catch up a little bit with where I wanted to be, I have uploaded the next ten chapters of League of Mortals – 11 through 20. Chapter 11 picks up with the end of Wesley’s surfing trip, which did not go well. It gets even worse. The rest of the chapters chart the last weeks of Wesley’s summer vacation, and the continuing decline of his health.
This work is obviously semi-autobiographical; it is based on my own experiences, but rearranged and stylized to make it more interesting. For example, my dad really did tell me the “Spartan Boy” story once, when I was much younger and had a stomach ache. The difference between fiction and reality is that where Wesley (the fiction) sees through it immediately, yours truly (the reality) accepted the story and aspired to be like the Spartan Boy. In retrospect, I don’t blame my dad – we were between flights overseas, and there wasn’t a lot else he could do – but it is a really terrible story to tell a kid. Not that I hold it against him.
