Craig BassThe author lives in Idaho and Southern California with his wife and dogs. In his earlier years, he wrote and published professional articles. He wrote and published fictional stories as a hobby only. He now writes full-time when not sailing. His inteest in writing has been lifelong since reading Hemingway, London, Steinbeck, and Faulkner at an early age. He now prefers writing about subject matters that deal primarily with complex problems of the human condition and spirit. His future interests in writing will primarily be concerned with creative fiction and experimental prose styles. This is a coming-of-age story about a boy growing up in Central Florida in the 1950s. The boy seeks to know the truth about God and religion, sexual awakenings, love, friendship, hate, and betrayal. His boring and uninteresting life is transported into a magical life of excitement and adventure through explorations of rural ranch life, fishing in remote lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. A Scout Master provides the opportunity of a lifetime for these wonderful new experiences, but is there too big of a price to pay? Only the boy can answer this question as he seeks the truth. Read More Read Less