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Thinking of changing your name, moving away and starting all over? Then meet Maynard Skidmore, floundering radiohead and would-be writer who is at the fifty yard line of a poorly scripted life that might easily claim "The Deadbolt Chronicles" as a working title.

After much soul searching, Skidmore relocates to Arizona where he quickly crosses paths with Gypsy Kahn -- carnival master, video game developer and all around oddball -- who provides a psychological stress reducer for Skidmore in the form of a newly developed computer game that helps him cope with his past so he can focus on a more promising future.

But Kahn is on a covert assignment from his 'boss' and draws Skidmore into an unsuspecting setup that forces him to choose between two different worlds. He agonizes over his choice -- even though he knows one is temporary and the other forever.

Will Skidmore see a glass half full? Or a glass half empty?
Or an ice cold tumbler of the usual blues?
And just who is this Gypsy Kahn, anyway?

"Personally, I've always been partial to fiction that doesn't immediately provide answers readers may have about characters and situations," says Magoo, "but rather allows enough time for a reader to wonder about them, think about them, to reflect on the options and the variables. In that sense, reading becomes truly interactive.

"The DreamCoach (one word) is just such a work. The method and manner of 'time travel' is presented as the kind that resists the fantastic, the frivolous and the quasi-historical in favor of putting an introspective face on the human condition in matters of emotion, social psychology, and spirituality. All set on a contemporary, surreal stage with humor enough for readers to laugh out loud at least once, and enough of a serious literary bent for them to roll a passage over the tongue a couple of times for the full savory nuance of the entire pot of Stoo."