Remote

By Mike Bozart

Two sexagenarians meet up to reminisce and discuss a science-fiction novel (that has a not-so-happy ending) written by the one who now lives alone in a cabin in isolated, rural Oregon.

Thoughts, notes, and health issues come into play.

Rating: PG-13.

Word count: 3131.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Bozart
• Release date: Mar 29, 2021
• ISBN: 9780463407127

Book preview

Hello Jim, how are you doing out there in rural Oregon? sixty-one-year-old John Hammeremmah asks from his bare-save-a-white-plastic-chair, 4th-floor, uptown-skyline-facing, faux-wrought-iron-railed apartment balcony in midtown Charlotte on an overcast-after-a-spell-of-morning-rain, cool-but-no-longer-chilly Monday afternoon, the 19th of February 2018. Wonder if the solitary life has him quacking with the ducks. Or chirping with the chipmunks? Do chipmunks chirp? Or cluck? Mother clucker!

Doing fairly well, longtime comrade, the white-hair-gone-very-thin-now, sixty-two-year-old, recliner-ensconced, cabin-enclosed Caucasian gent replies into his thicker-than-most smartphone as a sleety rain plays ting-tong on the westside windowpanes. Sleet is sublime for writing; it encourages one to tap farther. Who said that? Was it Doug? [another SFSU classmate] Where’s he now? Florida? Which coast? Has he become a ‘Florida man’? [internal chuckle]

Hey, I’m going to be in Salem for a conference next week. I’ll have a free day: Tuesday. Was thinking of driving down and checking in with ya, if you’re not too busy. Wonder how long he’ll

Reviews for Remote

[Jericho Franke · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

APHOBIA: "Or, is he going poon hunting? A secret rendezvous with some slut? No, he’s not like that. Well, not anymore. Not since the stroke. He’s as asexual as a eunuch now. Can’t even remember the last time we ..."