The Boy who Guarded the Crazy House: How to survive a drunk father and cruel mother

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George, an eleven-year-old boy and a nighty bed wetter, is more concerned about making it to adulthood than waking up in a dry bed.

George doesn't want much out of life, only to be like his cousin, who's a US Navy enlisted man who smokes and blows fat smoke rings. George wants to grow up to do both things.

He has an older brother who says aloud that George will most likely end up in an insane asylum due to his bed-wetting.

Eventually, George's mother stops beating him for wetting his bed, and his father, a drunk and a doctor, dies from a fall from a ladder, for which George is responsible.

Author Bio

George Smulen is a US Navy veteran who attended both undergraduate and graduate school through the Vietnam GI Bill. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees and is a retired English teacher from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.

A former hostage during a prison riot, Smulen previously published a book titled A Price to Pay, a fictional story based on a prison riot.