One of Mine: From Ansbach to Color

From Ansbach to Color

There are ways to touch her, the best ways, the appropriate ways. Carmicheal knows it too. There are ways to climb the stairs, the quiet ways, the stealthy ways, stepping on the outside of each rise in elevation, the stairs. This way, there are no creaks as he climbs to Aisling's bedroom on the second floor landing. This way, they do not wake the sleeping Merchant Marine.

From Ansbach to Color is a novel of firsts. Carmicheal is a recently orphaned seventeen year old American boy. Through clever paperwork, he gets to pass his last year of childhood as an exchange student in the small town of Ansbach, Germany. It's his first time outside of his hometown, his country. Once in Germany, nearly every experience is the first: the first time making love, the first drunk, the first breath after the loss of his mother. The episodic and lyrical ride of From Ansbach to Color moves over borders and time, from Balla the Futurist to Batman the Superhero right back to the view outside the window where the town below is up to secret things like daily life.

235 Pages. 48,000 Words.