The Pool Boy’s Beatitude by DJ Swykert
In space, the expansion of the universe exceeds the speed of light. In a jail cell the speed of light slows, time ages and deteriorates slowly to a crawl. Jack Joseph understands physics. He understands the nature of quarks, leptons, dark matter and the desire to find the God particle. What Jack doesn’t understand is…
In space, the expansion of the universe exceeds the speed of light. In a jail cell the speed of light slows, time ages and deteriorates slowly to a crawl. Jack Joseph understands physics. He understands the nature of quarks, leptons, dark matter and the desire to find the God particle. What Jack doesn’t understand is Jack. He has a Masters degree in particle physics, an ex-wife, a sugar mama, a passion for cooking and chronic dependencies he needs to feed. He cleans pools to maintain this chaotic lifestyle. Spinning about in a Large Hadron Collider of his own making, the particle known as Jack is about to collide with a particle known as Sarah.
“A nice, readable story”
Five Star Review on Amazon By Mohan
A product of Swykert’s fertile imaginative mind, The Pool Boy’s Beatitude highly readable narrative has a bit of everything – sex and storyline and intrigue.
The protagonist, Jack Joesph, has a Masters degree in particle physics but ends up as a “pool boy.” And this is where the intrigue continues. He has a wife, and an assortment other women in his life, almost one for each pool he services. After a life of meaningless wandering, Jack finally finds his true love, which is where the happy-ending comes.
Swykert skillfully weaves nice, readable story.
About the Author
DJ Swykert is a former 911 operator, and wolf expert, living in Northern Kentucky, USA. His short fiction and poetry has been published in: The Tampa Review, Monarch Review, Sand Canyon Review, Zodiac Review, Scissors and Spackle, spittoon, Barbaric Yawp and BULL. His novel, Maggie Elizabeth Harrington, won a literary competition with The LitWest Group in Los Angeles in 2002.