Calif. is the sequel to Miles From Nowhere, now available on Amazon and for your Kindle. Here's the teaser from the novel's cover:
"It's 50 years since Woodstock. If you were there, they say you won't remember. I remember..."
Miles From Nowhere is a hippie pilgrimage, the journey of a young man in poor health hoping to join the half-million strong. Recovering from kidney failure, Miles is hell-bent on Woodstock. After his father, Miles' transplant donor, succumbs to complications, Miles takes that long trek across the country, from California to New York, but the country gets in the way. In it, he finds love and lust, forgiveness, acceptance, communists, saints and sinners. Spoiler, Miles makes it to Woodstock, but only in time for Hendrix. Like all of us, you know, it's all about the journey.
But what would the journey be without music? The rock 'n' roll of 50 years ago, from Hendrix to the Who to Otis Redding, is like a character in the novel, a soundtrack in words. Travel across the country with Miles and his hippie entourage, all the while singing about the rain and love and peace.
Calif. continues Miles' story. Now an adult and truly on his own, Miles finally settles in, sets aside his nomadic ways, and finds himself working in a rock club in Santa Cruz. Away from his family, away from youth and his illness, Miles creates a new world for himself, but all the crazies from his past still mess with him and the reader gets to tag along as a friend.
https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Nowhere-Woodstock-R-Stowell/dp/173079372X
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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