Contents

Chapter 1: The Boys

Chapter 2: Rock-Salt Shotgun

Chapter 3: Beyond the Pond

Chapter 4: Olly Olly In-Come-Free

Chapter 5: Fight Night

Chapter 6: Trash and Trashy Down the Ditch

Chapter 7: Bass-Trap Ponytail

Chapter 8: Ants and Buffalo

Chapter 9: Eight-Track with an Engine in Back

Chapter 10: Blue Beams and June Bug Shadows

Chapter 11: The Belly Flop, the Buoy, and the Old Front Door

Chapter 12: More Bowden than Baseball

Chapter 13: Metal Arms

Chapter 14: Gone Fishen’

Chapter 15: Snakes in the Grass, Birds in the Closet

Chapter 16: Strychnine Strangers in a Bundy World

Chapter 17: The Lost Language of Ten

Chapter 18: Six Million Dollars

Chapter 19: The Babysitter’s Boobs

Chapter 20: Rattlesnakes and the Dreaded Middle Name

Chapter 21: Pup Tents, Head Fakes, and Midnight Rambles

Chapter 22: The Ghost in the Trash Can Lid

Chapter 23: Dracula’s Got A Cavity

Chapter 24: Call for Them One Morning and They’re Gone

Chapter 25: Searching for Bigfoot and Finding Faith in the Long Stride

Chapter 26: Insulated By Infinity

Chapter 27: Seasons in the Sun

Chapter 28: Ten Won’t Come Again

Chapter 29: The Neverland Effect

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Credits & References

About the Author