Young but Free

by Daniel J. Rice

In search of the last solitude.
Eddie Young remembers a time when he lived in the country at the foothills of the mountains where he and his older brother would roam freely through the landscape. His brother Steve was a passionate angler of the fly, and the mountains were their playground. Then their father took a job in the city and moved them to the pavement and highrises. This changed Eddie immensely as a young boy. Now in his senior year of high school, he has become entwined with the criminal underbelly of this city. As the rival gangs and cops close in on him, and his friends betray him, he plans an escape return to the wild mountains where he lived as a young boy, and begins to remember the freedom he felt there.

FROM THE PAGES:
"He was young but that wasn't his fault. The other age waited and he believed he was ready."

"Old Steve never got to be old. I wonder if the river remembers him. If the water still bends around the places his feet used to stand. If there's trout still alive and swimming here who have felt his hook in their lip..."

"This looked like a good place for a gunfight. As good as any."

"The mountains are my relief and this is the place where peace lives."

"He wished for them nothing more than what he knew now, that it was all possible, the pain was worth the reward if you followed it through the bends and hills and met your demons square in the jaw with a smile upon your face."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DQKSR9TL
• ISBN13: 9798992007725
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Riverfeet Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"