You Did Okay
A Jericho Book
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Side by side again, the cousins rushed along the crowded hall, this time with eyes darting to discover their homeroom number. “Here’s 26,” Joe said.
“I’m 28.” Nathan rushed on along the hall, then, suddenly lonely, he slid his feet. He turned back toward Joe, and was immediately jostled by the throng headed for room 28.
“Move, pilgrim!” He was shoved backward a step but managed to focus Joe. Joe, too, he thought, looked lonely. The cousins were as close as brothers yet the callous school had ruthlessly jerked them apart. Nathan was bulldozed on into room 28.
He looked around, saw not one familiar face, and took the seat he’d been shoved against. Voices pelted from all sides. He felt sunk within a
Maggie Gemuel always took immediate charge of a situation. They would by now all know her name and would be in conversation with her. Likely she’d be organizing a baseball game or a party or some such. Nobody ever ignored Maggie. All through grades six, seven, and eight Maggie had helped Nathan. Maggie Gemuel made him feel like he was worth something. Around Maggie he always did better than he’d thought that he could; even he could play baseball pretty well. She’d made him feel so well that Joe and others still remind him of the prowess he’d shown in their winning the ball game at the school picnic at
But she wasn’t in room 28.
In room 26, was she?
He sank deeper into the safety of his chair. He wished to see Fayette Manning but wasn’t surprised that he couldn’t. She hadn’t been in grade school more than a dozen times yet had the highest marks in school. Were she there he’d look at her because he loved to look at her and that would be a comfort. She wouldn’t speak to him like Maggie would have because Ette wouldn’t even know he was there. To a goddess he was non existent because, he thought, goddesses didn’t recognize their devotees. Still, seeing goddess Ette would be a comfort. Gaining comfort from his day dreaming, he gradually came to realizations about his venue.
Several students were yelling out the open classroom windows, calling to friends or acquaintances passing along the sidewalk out front. Nathan looked at the clock on the wall over the blackboard, noting that it was past eight-thirty yet no teacher had entered the room.
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About the Book
You Did Okay is fiction set into real history. The story was written in honor of the author’s grandfather, Clarence Groner, and the author’s mother, Edith Marie Groner Platt. The geography used in the books is similar to that of the community in where Clarence Groner and Edith Marie Groner Platt and T. F. Platt, and others of the Groner and Platt families, resided through much of their lives. In real life Clarence and Edith for a time lived on a road called and Clarence worked briefly in a paper mill nearby. The timeframe for the story is 1948 through 1952, and features characters in their teens. One of the fictional characters depicts the trial and times of author T. F. Platt and much of what happens to him in the story is real. Romance is both exciting and troublesome for the teens as they dive head on into high school life. Part time jobs help to support dating and work as the nation begins importation of foreign oil. youngsters also join their parents in coping with a young girl who is mysteriously, and repeatedly, maimed; working desperately to resolve her dilemma. The Korean War grimily awaits each young man as he emerges from formal school ready to partake adulthood. You Did Okay is the eighth of the Jericho Books by T. F. Platt. stories are intended for adults and young adults.The tales do not include explicit sex and they omit profanity.
About the Author
T. F. Platt enjoyed his first writing success in grade school, discovering that he could entertain and hold an audience by reading aloud the story or skit that he’d written. Those experiences stuck with him as he went on through university, high school teaching, and thirty-one years as a college professor.
While a professor he served eleven years as the National Editor of an annual scientific periodical. Meanwhile he published articles in the scientific press where accuracy and clarity are paramount. In retirement his prose graces novels which he has named The Jericho Books. He also writes a weekly column, The Jubilant Professor, for an entertainment magazine. Like his books, his column features adventure, romance, humor, suspense, tragedy.
Mr. Platt logged many joyful hours piloting a Piper Cherokee Archer. Now the airplane is sold to younger eyes that feast the puffy cumulus. With an antique backhoe he enjoyed landscaping and re-landscaping their four acres, completing two recreational ponds and numerous lanes and bridges appropriate for golf cart navigation. Now the backhoe has transferred to abler hands and a n additional golf cart scoots over the fields and lanes.
He with Helen enjoy their home four acres in southern