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The Circle by r.g. lawrence. To be released feb. 2012

An Introduction to Golden Boy by Author R G Lawrence

Following a farewell party for two exceptional high school athletes at the local country club, seven friends end up at the nearby lake with a couple of cases of beer, an evening of goodbyes before they enter into the world of adults, college, and uncertain futures. What they find at the lake will change each of their lives in strange and inconceivable ways.

As they settle in, building a fire and opening beers, they are suddenly aware that they are not alone. An eighth person has appeared, a tall, bearded man making himself at home amongst the kids. Claiming to be a traveler, he tries to simplify his role in the universe in a manner the teens will understand.

“A bum? No, I’m not a bum. And yes, as a matter of fact I was around during the sixties. A hippie? Maybe. But that’s something you children wouldn’t know a lot about, a different era, one of strange and wonderful turbulence, of growth, of terrible dissension that could easily have molded the people into something good. Instead, it failed miserably. So very sad, the sixties. For a brief moment, one shining instant it was almost like the American Revolution, an entire people standing together against a repulsive injustice.”

He was speaking with such conviction, such passion that the group of youngsters couldn’t help but be drawn to the speech, mesmerized by this stranger.

“But unlike that earlier time, the sixties was poisoned, diseased by self-serving parasites who put their individual desires above the common cause. Those maggot vermin of the sixties made the carpetbaggers of the post-Civil War look like preachers. Not a Washington or a Jefferson in sight during those wonderful years of the sixties, the only hope for this country buried in Arlington Cemetery. But, of course, that’s another story.” He smiled, the first smile the group had seen cross his face, a sad, forlorn smile, the wrinkles appearing around his mournful eyes, a tiny dimple in his left cheek.

“A traveler, at least when talking about a traveler like myself, is a person who is placed somewhere for a very specific, or possibly in this case, a number of specific purposes. Sometimes I’m not sure what my purpose is at the start of a journey…but that’s not important. Try to understand, I’m someone who balances things out, who brings a little sanity to some obviously insane times. You see, occasionally people on this planet, and for that matter, in other places, have been driven to self-destruct…and to take the rest of their world with them. It’s during these crises that the leaders might need a strong dose of reality, a wakeup call. I’m that dose, so to speak. And that, my young friends, is as simple as I can make it.”

Without revealing his motives, he offers the teens a deal, a peek into their futures. He explains that all he wants in return is their word that they never reveal the events of this night to anyone, never talk about it except with each other. The kids think he is a mixture of insanity and delusion, but Gretta, the most adventuresome of the group, takes him up on the deal, choosing to look into her future

When Gretta returns, the excitement she brings back with her convinces several of the others to try. Each time, the kids return filled with excitement and wonder.

And Rod, fervently believing in the man’s legitimacy, has no desire to see the future, wants nothing more than for the traveler to allow him a few moments in the past, a chance to save his brother from drowning.

Rod’s decisions this night have the potential for absolute joy; a possible homecoming with his long dead brother. But changing history has its price, and if he follows through with his plan, it carries the risk of terrible consequences that might affect every member of the group.  [Click Here for More]