Michael In Hell
This is the back cover of Michael In Hell without all the writing on it. It's from a picture of me taken in 1994 in Aurora, Indiana. Some reader noticed when you turn the cover upside down, another kind of evil looking figure becomes visible with outstretched hands and long hair; standing in front of what looks like a large window. This could possibly be the monster part of Michael Tucker in the novel showing itself. This wasn't done on purpose and it does seem really weird. Some of the novel is based on truth. I won't admit exactly what parts beyond the Vietnam scenes that are based on my reality as a Marine during that war. I do know for sure there is a monster lurking in each of us.
Kurt Vonnegut Short Take
Vonnegut’s
relations with women were vexed from the start. When he was 21, his mother
successfully committed suicide — on Mother’s Day.
The Secret Service spends months learning how to walk
in the dark while wearing sunglasses. I've discovered that they have a training
facility in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky where they go 800 feet below ground and turn
out the lights. Seventeen men have been lost inside the cave. They also learn
to sleep standing up, which is why they always look like statues when wearing
sunglasses. At least half of them are sleeping because they don't get coffee
breaks or get to listen to intelligent conversation while guarding politicians.
Talk about a
rough beginning: Karl Slover, one of the little people from theWizard of Oz who
just died at 93. Slover was born Karl Kosiczky in what is now the Czech
Republic and he was the only child in his family to be dwarf sized. His father
tried witch doctor treatments to make him grow. He was buried in the backyard,
immersed in heated oil until his skin blistered and then attached to a
stretching machine at a hospital; all in the attempt to make him become taller.
Eventually, he was sold by his father at age 9 to a traveling show in Europe.
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