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About the Author:<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

In the third grade, LD Jacobson was struck in the head by an errant dodge ball thrown at mock speed by a friend. His massive cranium bounced off a brick wall and then he collapsed to the pavement where his noggin bonked again. He was whisked away by ambulance and taken to a hospital, ultimately diagnosed with a severe concussion. While in the hospital, he contracted pneumonia and spent a week there. What he saw, as he swam in and out of consciousness, haunts him to this day. Something about the psychedelic effects of eating cat litter… His third-grade teacher, one Alice Swander, threatened to call his father if he didn’t stop blowing spit bubbles in class. It remains a harsh and, quite frankly, unjust threat.<\/p>\n

He routinely selects people he knows and gives them bit parts in his books – pray you’re not one of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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CHILDHOOD FLASHBACKS…\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n

Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, I feared the following things – in no particular order: stepping on a rusty nail in the grass and contracting lockjaw. (Apparently, my father had a habit of throwing old, rusty nails around the yard for us kids to step on.) I was terrified of quicksand, as in that stuff was spreading like crazy, and killer bees were inevitable. Congratulations 2026, for making all of those old horrors seem, well, relatively tame.<\/p>\n

I’ve recently developed an addiction for those ‘Maximal Nostalgia’ videos that start out with ‘you know the 80’s miss you, right?’ and end with ‘maybe it’s time you came back.’ They’re painfully authentic and I see myself and my friends in each one. In that heartaching vein, I created my own. (Seriously, it’s my all-time favorite creation.)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>In 1979, Evan King\u2019s life changed when a strange girl walking down the road told him to stop singing a particularly bad song. And into his life, walked Dana Elizabeth Marchant \u2013 the lead guitarist of a fabulously talented local garage band called the Soft Cloth Biscuit. A garage band that just happened to be looking for a new singer\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

For the next few years, Evan and Dana were inseparable \u2013 forming a bond built on their growing love for each other and the greatest rock and roll music ever made. But every soundtrack has a haunting ballad, something just a little bit darker than the others, and for Evan and Dana it featured a violent and abusive neighbor whose treatment of one of their friends brought the ugliness front and center.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018How do we help her?\u201d Evan asked one night. \u201cHow do we stop him?\u201d
\u2018Easy,\u201d Dana said. \u201cWe kill him.\u201d
Dana Elizabeth Marchant was a lot of things \u2013 whimsical and mercurial \u2013 but at times she carried with her a level of understanding and experience far beyond what her tender years would suggest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those few years would leave an indelible mark on Evan\u2019s life \u2013 a mark made of equal parts love, pain and even betrayal. But to Dana, they were merely a drip in an infinite ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Know that we are the timeless ones\u2026\u2019<\/i>
Forty years later, he receives two pieces of news.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first is that he\u2019s dying.<\/p>\n

The second is that Dana is back \u2013 and she\u2019s putting the band back together.<\/p>\n