For years this story was titled “Kilroy was Here.” I wrote it, re-worked it, sent it out. It never found a home.

The main characters are both rather lonely young boy-men. Both feel caught in a town. One feels it’s boring, another feels it’s just not not home. One determines that the two of them should find find the unmapped, unexplored in the town and mark it with a WWII-era “Kilroy.” The other scoffs, and says that there are no “unmapped and unexplored” spaces.

Nonetheless, off they go. Loneliness has a way of pushing us together. They do find both spaces and people. They also find connections and meaning. There’s a thread of faith in something Greater woven through.

As I worked in this final thread, years after writing the whole, I was amazed how it fit; it was the missing piece I’d been waiting for.

In my own past, I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home. As a young person, I felt that my imagination and creativity was quashed by the beliefs of both my parents and my church.

But I don’t think it’s supposed to be like that–even though, for many, it still is.

So I’ve decided to self-publish this story, now titled “Put One on the Moon,” with its openness and compassion. I like to think it’s what faith is supposed to be about.

Here’s the link to find all the places you might purchase it as an e-book: books2read.com/u/m2Bnyj

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