Thornton

by Will Rhodes

Overview

He had been a top-notch reporter and writer. Then he got onto an alcoholic slide. He finally hit bottom. He was fired from the small-city newspaper. His reaction was to hit the next two bars and get thoroughly drunk. Then he left everything, got into his car and started driving. His mind was in a whirl. How he survived was due only to the grace of God. Miles later, on the interstate, he passed a partly knocked down sign that penetrated his foggy mind. “Thornton, wasn’t that where there was some excitement or something a couple of years ago?” He did a suicidal u-turn across the grass median in search of the sign and the road. He survived the turn, found the road and followed it. The town didn’t appear to be much. It would change him and he would change it. Neither would regret the changes.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015562767
Publisher:	William F. Rhodes
Publication date:	10/06/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	134 KB

About the Author

I began my working life as an auto mechanic; served four years in the USAF as a vehicle mechanic instructor and later an instructor trainer. I got hooked on three things; teaching, writing and a blond girl I met in a skating rink in Wyoming. I was in Cheyenne “courtesy of the USAF”. We have three kids and live in northwest Pennsylvania. Out of the service I finished college and grad school, taught history, government and economics in public and church related schools. The man who mentored me as a teacher told me unless a history teacher was a good storyteller, the history would dry up and blow away. It’s true. I firmly believe the axiom a society that doesn’t know its history is condemned to repeat its mistakes. History is not dates and events, it’s people. My other passion besides teaching and writing is anything with an engine in it, from model airplanes to motorcycles and midget racing cars, which I built and raced. This was known to most of my students and occasionally led to some interesting exchanges in my classes. I do insist historical fiction should be as well researched as the history itself. As to my writing there are three things: fiction, research and commentary. Research is curiosity, commentary is conviction, but fiction is fun.