Wildflowers

by Corey Lee Wilson

Overview

Cody, the eldest brother aged ten, stings with jealousy because he and his younger brother Teddy, aged eight, are the only kids in class without a father whom they've never known. The year is 1967, and Cody loses hope he'll ever have one again-as his divorced mother and Playboy Bunny, Lisa, relishes her single lifestyle and the sexual freedom that comes with it.

Served with charges as "an unfit mother" by the State of California Dept. of Social Services during a surprise visit by a social worker the morning after Lisa hosts a hedonistic Halloween Party-she loses custody of her two boys to her god-fearing parents and avoids jail time under certain conditions.

If Lisa successfully completes psychiatric treatment and drug therapy, which she does-and receives her parent's blessing as well-she regains custody of her boys. Certain of that, Lisa sets out to claim them on Christmas Eve at her parents' house where the boys are staying. But everything goes wrong when a violent disagreement about the boys' custody ensues-and Lisa flees into the night without her boys-and goes missing, violating her court order.

Caught between two worlds-the boys must choose between them. After five-months have passed, without a sign of their mother, Lisa unexpectedly shows up at their church school. Against their better instincts, Cody and Teddy decide with their hearts and allow Lisa to kidnap them from school where they escape without being apprehended.

Undaunted, the grandparents hire Lisa's ex, the boy's father, to find them after Sean concludes his final tour in Vietnam as an Army Ranger tracker. Once he's made aware of the situation, Sean is determined to locate his boys and bring Lisa to justice for kidnapping them. Lisa, aware of the consequences, hitch-hikes with her boys from San Diego to Miami to escape capture and hides Sean's identify from them so they won't try to be captured.

Unaware the detective is their father, the boys assist their mom, mile after mile on their hitch-hiking journey from San Diego to Miami, successfully avoiding every attempt at apprehension along the way. 

Upon reaching their final destination in the Bahamas, Lisa falls in love with a debonair casino operator named Roger. With his wish about to come true, Cody's dream of having a father again is foiled by foul play, a hurricane, and sunken treasure. Or is it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953319272
Publisher:	Fratire Publishing LLC
Publication date:	11/24/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Corey Lee Wilson was raised an atheist by his liberal Playboy Bunny mother, has three Anglo-Hispanic siblings, a brother who died of AIDS, baptized a Protestant by his conservative grandparents, attended temple with his Jewish foster parents, baptized again as a Catholic for his first Filipina wife, attends Buddhist ceremonies with his second Thai wife, became an agnostic on his own free will for most of his life, and is a lifetime independent voter. Corey felt the sting of intellectual humility by repeating the 4th grade and attended eighteen different schools before putting himself through college at Mt. San Antonio College and Cal Poly Pomona University (while on triple secrete probation). Named Who's Who of American College Students in 1984, he received a BS in Economics and won his fraternity's most prestigious undergraduate honor, the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity's Shideler Award, both in 1985. As a satirist and fraternity man, Corey started Fratire Publishing in 2012 and transformed the fiction "fratire" genre to a respectable and viewpoint diverse non-fiction genre promoting practical knowledge and wisdom to help everyday people navigate safely through the many hazards of life. In 2018, he founded the SAPIENT Being to help promote freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, intellectual humility and most importantly advance sapience in America's students and campuses. The SAPIENT Being has two programs, the Make Free Speech Again On Campus (MFSAOC) and World of Writing Warriors (WOWW) to promote its mission and vision of sapience. The WOWW program plans to self-publish 50 MADNESS non-fiction textbooks in partnership with Fratire Publishing over the span of the 2020 decade in alliance with the MFSAOC program to start 50 chapters on America's high school and college campuses by 2030. If you're a student interested in the MFSAOC Program and starting a S.A.P.I.E.N.T. Being club, chapter, or alliance on/off campus OR a writer/journalist interested in the WOWW Program and its 50 MADNESS series of textbooks from the S.A.P.I.E.N.T. Being, please check them both out at https://www.SapientBeing.org.

Table of Contents

Foreword

1   My Centerfold

2   A Peeping Tommy

3   Houston! We Have Lift Off!

4   The Social Worker

5   Court Martialed

6   Oh Holy Jesus!

7   A Dark Christmas Night

8   Mr. Pritchard's Lawn

9   The Lemo Gang

10  Kidnapped!

11  Together Again

12  Wally's Bottle

13  Patchouli Girls

14  The Robin's Nest

15  Group Therapy

16  How To Lose A Body

17  The Big Fish Eye

18  True Detective

19  Sweet Hitch-Hiker

20  Truck Stop Cafe

21  The Big Rig

22  Sweetwater Revival

23  What A Downer

24  Roger That!

25  Yes Sir! No Sir!

26  The Grand Bahamas Ball

27  Hurricane A Comin'

28  Smuggler's Cove

29  Paradise Lost

30  Going Home

Afterword

Closing

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