The Rites of Passage

About the Book

Skipper, an otherwise normal colt, must go through the Rites of Passage as strangely, his steps have tended to skips since birth, kind of strangely. Between his knees, his manners don’t make sense for Thor, his father, and Grace, his mother, can’t always be there as Skipper continues to explore the wilder ranges surrounding him now in California’s Central Valley. While his own herd disdains Skipper’s strange ways, still the yearling manages to make friends with its guardian dogs. The other colts his age love sports, but Skipper can’t really score in his isolation. As he learns to focus on next fall’s rodeo, not the summer’s final scores, he finds the Central Valley isn’t always fair—so how does a stallion emerge?

About the Author

Bruce Mincks is a native of San Diego, California and graduate of San Diego State University, where he studied Literature, Philosophy and Linguistics until 1981. Graduate school led to thirty years of experience with clerical jobs and some computer programming, especially among attorneys. He has never been offered a permanent, full-time job in his life, having ended 17 years of experience in his father's butcher shop by graduated with academic honors from San Diego State University 13 years after graduating from high school. Meanwhile, he has researched mathematics, sports nutrition, mechanical and figure drawing to produce animated web content as educational software. His future plans include new novels about Prussian and English history as well as other experiments in prose and poetry.