Ebook: Sea Monkeys: a Memory Book

Title Page; Acknowledgments; TO BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING IS WHERE ALL THE TROUBLE STARTS; SIMULTANEOUS SEA LIONS; VIEW FROM THE ATTIC; SAY WHEN; NO SIMPLE SHADOWS; SUNDAY ROAST; BLUE TO LIFE; DUST MELODY; SOLDIER IN THE EGG; CALL TO WORSHIP; DON'T GET A GUN, GET A BIG DOG; THE GHOSTS AND VAN CHEESE; CUCKOO; THE EAR; SCHOOL FOR THE DEAD; I'D SHOW THEM ALL; JUMP WITH ME; LORD OF LORDS; HEAT LIGHTNING; JOSEPH COTTEN; MAD MOUSE; BAD HOMBRE; NO PRISONERS; SOMETIMES YOU MUST GET LOST MORE DEEPLY TO LEARN THE SECRET OF THE WAY OUT; THE GIFT OF EVIL; FIRE AND FORGET; JUICE IN THE PAIL; MOONLIGHT RIDER.;Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone. These are just a few of the luminous characters and conjurings Kris Saknussemm delivers in his kaleidoscopic Sea Monkeys?the story of his growing up in the counterculture San Francisco Bay Area and central California in the 1960s. Known for his genre-bending works Zanesville and Private Midnight, Saknussemm now gives us a highly orig.