Michael Wright

SHOCKING SECRETS ABOUT ELVIS REVEALED IN AGONIZING TRUE-LIFE CONFESSIONS OF LONG-TIME FAN Lyla enters. We're in her living room. She's wearing a tight, fuzzy sweater, and Capri pants with gold mid-heel sandals--looking very much like the classic Elvis girlfriend from the movies, though at least twenty years too far on. She's got something to tell us, but she's not quite ready to get to it. She sits and takes a moment to get comfy. She lights a cigarette, takes a sip from her coffee cup. LYLA I just love the way cigarettes and coffee go together, don't you? It's like--liquid butter turning into air or something. I like the way they kind of grab my chest: take that puff, sip a little sip, and you get a kind of a breathless, fluttery feeling, now don't you? Like first love. She smiles at herself. Looks to us to see how we're receiving this. Finding us not too judgmental, she relaxes a little. I mean, ok, I know I shouldn't do any of this ...

Here is a sample of Michael Wright's novel Down the Ocean Summer '64 ,  available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback Three months can be a life-time of experiences. Baltimore boy Roy Newson is at loose ends: his girlfriend has dumped him, he's quit college to work in a steel mill and the only escape from reality is spending weekends in Ocean City where he longs to find true love--and a good wave to ride. When he meets free-spirit Dina on the beach, Roy begins to believe that his dreams might just come true. THE “MERLIN” DIALECT Down the Ocean  (pronounced Downey Owe Shin) — Summertime destination, meaning: “traveling to Ocean City, Maryland.” Also used to indicate any destination: down the store, down the shore, down the way. Online source: A brief tutorial — The “Merlin” Dialect The Merlin Dialect is spoken by a mixed population which inhabits a triangular area on the western littoral of the Chesapeake Bay, bounded roughly by a line commencing at Towson...

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