Our hero, Rick “Richie” Preston, is ten years out of high school and doing nothing but
flipping burgers when a fight with his father (and bargain landlord) tosses him back into his
senior year of high school where he gets a chance to redo everything so long as he agrees to
not alter other people’s lives.
Even though I didn’t see this released until 2011, it
is set in 1998 and 1988, and I think the writing predated the identically named and similarly
plotted 2002 TV show. In any case, I’m glad that Denver resident Jeff Kirvin released this
story on Kindle.
As I stood gaping at the rows of ten-year-old magazines, a fortyish, balding man sidled
up next to me. ”Pretty cool, huh, Preston?”