Lucky Strike: A Tale of Love and Woe

Lucky Strike: A Tale of Love and Woe is the story of a young man's search for balance and personal meaning. At the beginning of the story, James Earl "Rainy" Stiles feels lost and empty. He quits school, gives up his job, and is impotent as a result of an indecent exposure charge for skinny-dipping in a public lake with his girlfriend. If all this wasn't enough, his best friend gets sent to a mental hospital.

Rainy visits his friend, Gordon Waverly, who is surreptitiously trying to become bu...