Power Lines

About the Book

Power Lines is a collection of four stories which incorporate elements of autobiography and fantasy. The first is a story of a place and time in the childhood of the author and goes from his introduction to the town of Crofton in a diamond shaped pit to his final days there in which he was a freshman and sophomore in high school, running over the rolling gravel hills with friends and a teenage first love.

“The Adventures of Bob White” is the second and also somewhat autobiographical story with more sci-fi elements and is followed by the lengthy romance of “100 Weddings With Kristen.” Lastly, “Space Adventure” completes the cycle with a short, but deep “longest journey ever taken by mankind” which shares characters from the previous story. I believe these stories will find an interested audience due to their depth, unique adventures and realism of emotion.

About the Author

Michael Rodgers is a European History student at the University of Maryland after originally being a Physics major at NC State. He is an avid runner who once won a marathon in 1999 and was 21st in this year’s National Marathon. He went to Arundel High School and Richard Montgomery from which he graduated from an all honors and advance placement curriculum. He was always very focused on running, scholastics as well as chess tournaments, but many of the stories related in the novel involve the endless riddle of his first true and mostly unrequited love. Lastly, Michael enjoys the study of the French language and hopes to finish his schooling within the year after having it prolonged by a six week stint in the Navy in ‘02. This book is dedicated to all his running friends from the Wildcats, Rockets, Wolfpack and Fightin’ Knights.