Some lurked in closets. Others scratched at bedroom windows during summer storms, fed by half-heard conversations and imaginations running far ahead of reason. The Cr’apple is the story of one such creature, and the quiet revelation decades later that transformed a family tree into a family legend.
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Ghost Runner on Third
There were never quite enough kids to fill every position, so imagination did the rest. Ghost Runner on Third is a tribute to sandlot baseball, unwritten childhood rules, and the quiet code of honor forged on long summer afternoons behind a weathered barn, where friendship always mattered more than keeping score.
Channel 3
A quiet Saturday morning in the early 1980s. Three channels, a Zenith television, and the ritual of cartoons and commercials that defined a generation. In this moment, the boy isn’t just watching the show. He’s watching himself on Channel 3, frozen in black and white on the screen. A fleeting broadcast becomes a memory that outlasts the signal, a reminder of when the world arrived through antennas and imagination did the rest.
The Lords of Stanford Drive
In a quiet valley upstate, three boys ruled a kingdom no one else could see. Big Wheels and vacant lots. Crayfish and cardboard swords. Drive-ins and rotary phones. The Lords of Stanford Drive is a suburban epic about friendship, freedom, and the strange elasticity of childhood time — how it once stood still, then slowly crept, then suddenly caught up. A myth of a street. A memory of an era. A crown worn lightly, and laid down without ceremony.
Mannino Acid 