Hi’ Steppin  off da Crack                                   

      

 
This is the original text in the first person of Hi’ Steppin’ called specifically ‘oft da Crack.’ The second version know simply as HI’ Steppin,’ was done because the original text was lost only to reappear on my computer years later. This mystery pales in consideration of the misery this version wrought in creation. It was tortuously pounded out and made me the writer I am today, eighteen books later. Buy either one, they convey the same message whether you are a empathetic sentimentalist or a detached observer of simulated confession.
 
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The First Step:

   Hi’ Steppin 

  

Paul Undres, the baby boomer’s baby boomer. Born to hit college in the nineteen sixties, Paul experienced the hippie counter culture, the Air Force, corporate “normalcy,” but most of all—time on his hands and nothing to do. What could possibly go absurd? Paul’s choices took him on adventures, far and wide. Lots of trials. Lots of tribulations. Life’s absurdities are bad enough, but spice ’em up a bit with drugs and alcohol, and you get—Paul Undres! Yikes!! Eventually, Paul finds himself clear of drugs and alcohol. He comes to see the humor in the stupid things we tend to do. He’s lost the angst of taking things too seriously. Yeah, he doesn’t do that any more. Good thing too, because life’s absurdities go on, as you can probably tell.

 
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The Second Step:

   Lo’ Steppin    

 

Was Paul a bigot or a product of the times? Has his shortsightedness caught him with his pants down? From freeloader to office holder to prison inmate, we find ourselves incarcerated by Paul’s misfortune. Paul really can’t do much behind bars. He just can’t get around like he use to. The author finds himself adequately recovered from his first book, Hi’ Steppin,’ and now is in concentration with Paul as Paul merrily cavorts down a decadent path in Lo’ Steppin.’ Al, the author, is happy Paul has found a home, but realizes that is not a permanent stay for soon there will be the Third Step, the Smoking Gun and Coffin Nails to read.

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The Third Step:

 Quitting a Smoking Gun

 
Paul Undres, anti-hero and protagonist, once again espouses the world’s ills in Quitting. In Hi’ Steppin’ he was a crackhead who undoes the Veterans Administration. In Lo’ Steppin’ he is a sex addict who loses his welfare check to an alluring underage girl. Finally, herein, he smokes himself to death after a few unusual operations. Take a deep breath while his fate is talked about by the gods above and below in a fierce battle with the thoughtlessness. It’s a fight to the finish. Everyone dies. Mr. Lucas was born in New York and never recovered. Currently he is at a distance from all previous acquaintances. He has much hope for the world despite its reversals.
 
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The Fourth Step:

Running to Dream Big

It is a first person adventure coming behind the third person version printed first that you see right below as Hi’ Steppin’ with his high school photo on the cover.

This version captures the essence of the author’s fascination with communication techniques, namely the use of italics. You like it because it’s crazy. Come and get it. As for theme and structure, read the book that follows, the third person version. It details the same story from a different point of view.

Paul’s choices took him on adventures, far and wide. Lots of trials. Lots of tribulations. Life’s absurdities are bad enough, but spice ’em up a bit with drugs and alcohol, and you get—Paul Undres! 

Eventually, Paul finds himself clear of drugs and alcohol.. Good thing too, because life’s absurdities go on, as you can probably tell.

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The Fifth Step:

The Last Job.

To Sweep the Heavens

 
 
 

About the Book: Paul Undres deals in fear. Fear of making it and fear of not making it, just to cover his bases. He starts out by consulting an old girlfriend, Connie and then merrily dances through Sara, Ashley and Carla while Chilli, his AA consort. hangs on. He ends up with his final God given employment, custodian of the heavens. He’s a sweeper.

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Mister Bon Mot

&

The Election of 2016

 
 
 
Mister Bon Mot has it down now. A tip of the hat, a flourish of the pen, he details in his White Paper the debate on Capitol Hill as an exercise in Ponzi politics. He evolves as do the candidates in the Paper that turns culturally sensitive instead of merely fiscally pronounced. His girlfriend of long standing, not good standing, loses her life in the hood and he is duped by suspicious housing security. In the end he takes to the woods where his core values have a chance to take in a little sunshine and fresh air. And some redness.
 
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Mr. Bon Mot

and The Meaning of Wife

Bon Mot comes out of the woods to a trying pandemic that has hit the world. He is a born womanizer and lures three respective women to marry him and run for office. What office? The biggest of all. The only problem is he’s first gentleman meaning his wives are president. As an alcoholic, it is a bit much. As a writer, he is at a loss for words.

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                                                                            AL 

                                

The book Al, is Al’s first book to play with the specific tenets of recovery. The Twelve Steps, The Twelve Traditions, The Promises, heck, he even gets to The Ten Commandments and The Boy Scout Pledge. Yep, Al introduces us to Al, of ambiguous relation, who proceeds to proffer a profundity of postulation for posterity. Preposterous? Possibly. Proceed promptly and perceive proof. Now you’re getting it!

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Pan and the

Pandemic

Scientists are working hard on understanding this new contagion, while Al has already figured it out. It’s nothing more than an Act of God, told on the Stage of Life, for the dissemination of the refined and the blind, both to savor willy nilly in their contemptuous ways. Pan is a horrific monster capable of unhinging the very doorway of civilization. He has man by the balls if not holding his own. No one escapes.

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Force Feed:

Colors of the Cerebrum

   

Blown up by a staff sergeant in charge of the Armageddon code, the country enters the Spirit World. 1000 years after the Decimation and 1004 years after the Usurpation by a Mr.Trump, One child reincarnates in South Dakota and takes on the Ruskies, foreign occupiers, and restores America to greatness.

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Paul, the writer, starts with one girl, Cherie, the crackhead, goes to another BB, the Black, and ends with Mime, who cons him with different approach to publication, namely the author pays the readerwhile he is on the fast track of telling the world exactly how much time is left.

Several questions are posed as the midterms near. One, being do we care? The other, of course not.  

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Dwindling Supply.

 The Art of Aging

                   

he relationship between Paul, the creator of fiction, and Maybee, the publicist of lies is contentious.  She promises so much but produces so little. As a result, Paul needs to reinvent himself with AA meetings, his only outlet besides the muse.

It is within the confines of that space that he takes on sponsees, Angel Loaf and Wonder Bred, along with the girlfriends, Haughty Count and Soft Spread. Like any good sponsor, Paul loses his home trying to help. He thus abandons Tampa and goes North to see if any of his old acquaintances still mean anything. Between Brandy, Matter, and Fingers, he finds a certain equivocation.

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The Midterms

This is a book about politics and personality. The politics is the digital era and just how smart are we? The personality is Paul Undres as he anticipates the oncoming election of 2022. The two jive and groove in a sneaker culture that retails on Amazon and whether it is worth buying a candidate. . About the Author: Al is all about Paul Undres, the protagonist. He thinks and acts just like the character unfortunately.

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A Menagerie of Metaphors

Paul has changed his name to Pau, opting for some flair in a bland name. He initially courts Mime, an AA member and former ballerina by choregraphing a ballet for her. It turns out to be a puppet show with her pulling the strings. But the real love of his life turns out to be Maynot,, the shrewd publicist, who screws him of his savings from his lifetime devotion of writing. She also begets him a child who manages to kill himself. It turns out Pau dies too and as a result is at a lost for words.

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The Baby Formula

with the Silken

Approach

Al predicts the midterms to this classic storybook tale replete with fantasy characters and childlike wonderment. His protagonist wonders chapter by chapter what has befallen him and what he is going to do about it. In any event, it’s all public record with Al’s15th and most historic book. Travel on the Amtrak AA Special to the girl’s dorm at UF to a reincarnated self and find out what his secrets to longevity are, and as he feeds the public the baby formula you can’t find on the store shelves. As far as the silken approach goes, he delivers smooth talk to Trump’s world. See where that lands him.

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                                                                            An Old Refrain Played

                                                                                   by the Book

                                                     

This is a book of Elvis Undres, twin brother to Paul Undres, known protagonist of the Step Series. It is not necessary an autobiographical book fictionalized by name only, but the author’s take on reality as he has plowed through the years of polarized politics while being retired. His life is AA and MSNBC. same as Elvis.

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                                                                                  The Underlying 

                                                                                Meaning of it All

This book deals with the peregrinations of a seventy six year old man who still lusts for life as he debates with himself the value of it. He has become spiritual in his old age. He also celebrates his twenty second year of sobriety that has enabled him to salvage from the ruins a misspent earlier time. He wonders if he should be overly remiss regarding himself in light of the politics of public opinion these last six years. In fact so unbelievable is it, he wonders if he isn’t imagining it all.

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The Mojo and the Mind

 

About the Book: Here we have a race between Donald Trump and Paul Undres. Both are freeloaders, one on a grand scale and the other, not even employable. Who will win is to be determined Nov. 5, 2024.

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