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The World’s Most Rotten Kid
A young boy, driven nearly insane by a sister who wants to be Shirley Temple, a father obsessed with Richard Nixon, a next door neighbor who may have murdered his wife, a TV perfect mother and a cynical, sadistic grandfather, creates the most terrifying work of art ever conceived. He could be the world’s most rotten kid; or just misunderstood.
The Night Sky
Meet a successful realtor who has just sold a house. Business is booming, as they say. There is just one little problem. The world may be on the verge of coming to a hellish end.
What’s the Matter with Tomatoes?
Growing tomatoes may be a pleasant hobby. As long as it doesn’t drive you crazy once you face the great cosmic power that is intent on cornering the market.
My Life in a Day
Johnny has a long life ahead of him. Unfortunately for him, he’ll live it all in one day. Still, there’s a reason for everything, as he’s about to find out.
Goodbye, Buster
A young mother listens to a story about a murder that may or may not be an urban legend. At the end of the story, however, she will have to grapple with death in real life.
Going Once, Going Twice
Sid may have died last night, but that won’t keep him from going to work the next day.
Idea Man
An old man is down on his luck. To make a comeback he’ll have to plot a few grisly killings. Is he a harmless crank or the Devil himself?
The World Most Rotten Kid and other stories edition by James Hazard Literature Fiction eBooks
James Hazard. The World’s Most Rotten Kid and Other Stories. Amazon Kindle. 229p.James Hazard is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles and has served in the United States Navy. He grew up in El Monte. Most of these stories and are set in the 1960s, with some in more contemporary times. They take place in the Los Angeles area though, except for some place names, they could be in any part of Middle America. There is at times what you might call ‘mild’ science fiction here. We see again how complex ordinary people’s lives are. In several of the stories there are incidents of the routine violence done towards children in earlier generations. The characters are different people in all the stories. Most are told in the first person.
The title story, the longest in this collection, is a first person narrative in the voice of an 11 year old boy who is smart and artistically gifted as a painter and a cartoonist. He has decent parents. The Father is a WWII veteran and is a Republican who has a strong sense of social justice that gets him in trouble with the others in the local GOP group. His mother is much more that the mother from the TV shows who dresses up to wax the floor. A sister, maybe forever in the ‘terrible twos’ is, as it turns out, even more of an artist. A Grandfather comes to stay, a man not so decent and very much from the dark side. There is a Thanksgiving Dinner of the kind we all fear and that too often happens. The main part of the story though is the onset of puberty for our narrator when he had little idea what was happening, much a part of a time when sex was not talked about. The incident in Church. Guilt and confusion. Then he was asked to carve the pumpkin for school. We don’t find out quite what he carved, but it got him called the ‘Rotten Kid.’ And visits with the school Psychologist. Where he learned what was happening to him. There is a satisfying Epilogue where he tells what his life has been like since as he looks back on his childhood.
“The Night Sky” The ordinary life with the smells and sounds of Los Angeles and the people and successes in the real estate office. Family life and a chess prodigy son. But there is something more – a meteor heading towards Earth. Will the missiles stop it? The government has fall-back plans if the missiles fail where all have to assemble for evacuation. We all have also thought of what we would do in an impending cataclysm. Maybe just stay home.
“What’s the Matter with Tomatoes?” A sensible couple, who have been married forty years, are retired now and in a comfortable routine. He is sensible because he listens to his more sensible wife. About most everything. He thinks he might grow tomatoes on the sunny patio. His wife does not approve. She insists that he go to a doctor who specializes in ‘depression and excessive thinking.’ And now is he having a dream? Where he learns from the doctor that tomatoes are a controlled substance. Controlled by the authorities in the eighth dimension.
“My Life in a Day” This story is told by a GI who moves to California just after the war. At age 29 he has episodes were he feels himself rushing into his own body. Others tell him at times he doesn’t move for almost an hour. Then he wakes to find he has been asleep in a hospital for a year. He makes friends with a young nurse. And then wakes again to see she is married with young children, then later wakes when she has grown children. And even later when she is retired. He learns of JFK and Vietnam. At one of the times he is awake, maybe a total of a day for the rest of his life, he warns her of something that could happen.
“Good Bye, Buster” A young mother, a widow with two children, is also taking care of her ailing stepfather. Buster is their aging dog. There is a story within in a story, an old joke about a murder by a jealous husband. And in the end a death in real life.
“Going Once, Going Twice” A man dies in his sleep but gets up the next morning and goes into work as usual. His secretary alarmed at his appearance calls the paramedics. After they check his vital signs he finds himself in a quarantined facility attended by people on space suits. We learn of his life in flashback. Is all this a dream?
“Idea Man” This is a very short story. A man knows a ‘crazy’ lady who wants to defeat the devil. And maybe that is the old man, down on his luck now, who lives on his property. What else would the devil do if he walked the earth other than be an advisor to persons such as Bernie Madoff?
“The Rotten Kid” could be appreciated by other bright kids and young adults. And by adults of all ages. The rest of the stories though are more for grownups.
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Just a really bad book. I couldn't even finish it. Pointless and boring.
This author's style is reminiscent of Vonnegut. The characters are crystal clear and very complex. But, you know them well!! Very entertaining!!
James Hazard. The World’s Most Rotten Kid and Other Stories. . 229p.
James Hazard is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles and has served in the United States Navy. He grew up in El Monte. Most of these stories and are set in the 1960s, with some in more contemporary times. They take place in the Los Angeles area though, except for some place names, they could be in any part of Middle America. There is at times what you might call ‘mild’ science fiction here. We see again how complex ordinary people’s lives are. In several of the stories there are incidents of the routine violence done towards children in earlier generations. The characters are different people in all the stories. Most are told in the first person.
The title story, the longest in this collection, is a first person narrative in the voice of an 11 year old boy who is smart and artistically gifted as a painter and a cartoonist. He has decent parents. The Father is a WWII veteran and is a Republican who has a strong sense of social justice that gets him in trouble with the others in the local GOP group. His mother is much more that the mother from the TV shows who dresses up to wax the floor. A sister, maybe forever in the ‘terrible twos’ is, as it turns out, even more of an artist. A Grandfather comes to stay, a man not so decent and very much from the dark side. There is a Thanksgiving Dinner of the kind we all fear and that too often happens. The main part of the story though is the onset of puberty for our narrator when he had little idea what was happening, much a part of a time when sex was not talked about. The incident in Church. Guilt and confusion. Then he was asked to carve the pumpkin for school. We don’t find out quite what he carved, but it got him called the ‘Rotten Kid.’ And visits with the school Psychologist. Where he learned what was happening to him. There is a satisfying Epilogue where he tells what his life has been like since as he looks back on his childhood.
“The Night Sky” The ordinary life with the smells and sounds of Los Angeles and the people and successes in the real estate office. Family life and a chess prodigy son. But there is something more – a meteor heading towards Earth. Will the missiles stop it? The government has fall-back plans if the missiles fail where all have to assemble for evacuation. We all have also thought of what we would do in an impending cataclysm. Maybe just stay home.
“What’s the Matter with Tomatoes?” A sensible couple, who have been married forty years, are retired now and in a comfortable routine. He is sensible because he listens to his more sensible wife. About most everything. He thinks he might grow tomatoes on the sunny patio. His wife does not approve. She insists that he go to a doctor who specializes in ‘depression and excessive thinking.’ And now is he having a dream? Where he learns from the doctor that tomatoes are a controlled substance. Controlled by the authorities in the eighth dimension.
“My Life in a Day” This story is told by a GI who moves to California just after the war. At age 29 he has episodes were he feels himself rushing into his own body. Others tell him at times he doesn’t move for almost an hour. Then he wakes to find he has been asleep in a hospital for a year. He makes friends with a young nurse. And then wakes again to see she is married with young children, then later wakes when she has grown children. And even later when she is retired. He learns of JFK and Vietnam. At one of the times he is awake, maybe a total of a day for the rest of his life, he warns her of something that could happen.
“Good Bye, Buster” A young mother, a widow with two children, is also taking care of her ailing stepfather. Buster is their aging dog. There is a story within in a story, an old joke about a murder by a jealous husband. And in the end a death in real life.
“Going Once, Going Twice” A man dies in his sleep but gets up the next morning and goes into work as usual. His secretary alarmed at his appearance calls the paramedics. After they check his vital signs he finds himself in a quarantined facility attended by people on space suits. We learn of his life in flashback. Is all this a dream?
“Idea Man” This is a very short story. A man knows a ‘crazy’ lady who wants to defeat the devil. And maybe that is the old man, down on his luck now, who lives on his property. What else would the devil do if he walked the earth other than be an advisor to persons such as Bernie Madoff?
“The Rotten Kid” could be appreciated by other bright kids and young adults. And by adults of all ages. The rest of the stories though are more for grownups.
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