The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. I can't explain. I remember this: first, sitting on the bench during my Little League team's 7 p.m. game, and second, waking in the crawl space of my house near midnight. Whatever happened during that empty expanse of time remains a blur.
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At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years, curious about his developing sexuality, Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now, ten years later, he is a teenage hustler, a terrorist of sorts, unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach, memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and, ultimately, the truth.
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Table of Contents
part one.
Blue 1981, 1983, 1987
Page 1
one.
Brian Lackey
Page 3
two.
Neil McCormick
Page 17
three.
Brian Lackey
Page 39
four.
Wendy Peterson
Page 53
five.
Deborah Lackey
Page 75
six.
Neil McCormick
Page 82
part two.
Gray Summer 1991
Page 93
seven.
Brian Lackey
Page 95
eight.
Eric Preston
Page 114
nine.
Brian Lackey
Page 135
ten.
Neil McCormick
Page 161
eleven.
Brian Lackey
Page 173
twelve.
Eric Preston
Page 187
part three.
White Autumn-Winter 1991
Page 201
thirteen.
Brian Lackey
Page 203
fourteen.
Neil McCormick
Page 221
fifteen.
Deborah Lackey
Page 250
sixteen.
Eric Preston
Page 264
seventeen.
Brian Lackey
Page 277
eighteen.
Neil McCormick
Page 283
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