Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 7
Jun22

Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 7

The Hertz counter was empty when Arch went in to get a car more fitting than Matisse’s Pontiac convertible. There were plenty of cars and Arch didn’t bother to try to negotiate rates. A hundred dollars a day for a Cadillac……

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Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 8
Jun22

Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 8

The rash guards weren’t so bad, Arch decided, wishing he had a vanity mirror to check himself out in. Like a wetsuit, but better because the thin elastic long sleeve top and bottoms held everything in without giving him a feeling of being compressed……..

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Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 9
Jul04

Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 9

Arch Patton DOWN IN THE VALLEY Chapter 9 By James Strauss   The Humvee proved to be empty, an enlisted Marine wearing no rank exiting the vehicle as Matisse and Arch got in. The heavy armored door slammed shut and the driver took off. There was nobody else in the Humvee. Arch looked through the bulletproof glass, as they four-wheeled over the packed pine needles to the road. The scenery was surreal to him. It was exactly the same and...

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Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 10
Jun23

Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 10

“Stairway to Heaven?” Arch said, looking intently into Matisse’s eyes. “I don’t like the way you said that. What heaven or what hell are you talking about and what does it have to do with the word Haiku, General DeWare mentioned…..

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Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 11
Jun23

Arch Patton, Down in the Valley, Chapter 11

Arch and Matisse hiked the quarter mile back past Sunset Beach until they came to Ted’s Bakery. Ted Nakamura ran the place and he knew Matisse from way back, or so Matisse claimed………..

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