At nearer the age of five than four, illegally sold into the London chimney sweeping trade as a chimney sweep's apprentice--a Climbing Boy--for the pittance of back rent owed to the landlord of the shack he had lived in with his widowed, just-deceased mother, Zachariah became little more than a slave to his owner, an abusive inebriate. His mother dead these past five years, the image of her face fading from memory, the little child struggled to remember, but appearing only in deep shadow, even in his dreams, the boy could no longer envision his mother. Then on this day before Christmas in 1843, the very day of the same mystical Christmas Eve that Ebenezer Scrooge had his three ghostly visitors, the oddly familiar face of a kindly lady struck a deep chord that rekindled the memory of the image missing from his dreams--the face of his mother--and gave Zachariah hope for the future. Finally, left alone to find his way home on this magical Christmas Eve, encountering his intoxicated master and severely beaten, Zachariah is saved by.

The Climbing Boy

Literature & Fiction

Lichterman, Mark

Genre Fiction

Metropolis Ink

A Distant Mirror

Spring, 1956, Brighton Beach, New York: an old man crossing a street eerily foretells the future of the young man sitting in a car waiting for the red to turn to green... Remember? ... the day a middle-aged woman sat down in a bus, and a Southern Baptist minister gained national prominence? ... the day a mysterious, intermittent beep, beep, beep... ushered in the dawn of the space age? ... the day that ushered in America's dawn of integration-when two U.S. armies stood face to face with bayoneted rifles outside an American high school? ... the day America tottered on the brink of nuclear war? ... the day a line was drawn in the ocean, and the other guy blinked? ... the winter day when America forever lost its innocence? FOR BETTER OR WORSE Seven years that changed the history of the world and the complexion of America. Taking place in New York City, Chicago and Central Illinois, the characterizations and situations coinciding with historical events. Paths crossed when he was five years old while crossing a street with his mother on the west side of Chicago, the same old man seen again crossing a street in Brighton Beach, New York... seventeen years later. Through seven years as two familiar young people become an adult man and woman, a husband and wife and, eventually, responsible parents. Realistically written, humanly, visually sexual, be there as this love-to-hatred, hatred-to-love marriage entwines through the history of the mid-1950's into the '60's.

For Better or Worse

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The Climbing Boy

The Climbing Boy

For Better or Worse