Adventures of Ms Kelly in Miami

About the Book

It was Christmas and we spent it in San Antonio, Texas. Calvin took us mdowntown for a boat ride on the river walk.

    Mrs. Rat said, “Ms Kelly I will tell you a secret.” “What secret?” I asked.

    “Now Ms Kelly you can’t tell anyone, promise?”

    “I promise.”

    Mrs. Rat whispered to me. “There is an old house in the back of the property almost covered by bushes. That is where I get my food. There are a lot of mean ugly dogs in small cages down in the basement.”

    “Do you mean they are all locked in cages? How do they get anything to eat since no one lives there?”

    There are three men that come in everyday to feed them.

    Sometimes they will take some of them out and when they return they are all cut up and bleeding and hurting so bad they are crying.” Mrs. Rat explained pitifully.

    “What kind of dogs are they and how do they get cut up?” I asked.

About the Author

Author Calvin Dirickson was born in l938. His early childhood was spent in stark poverty during the depression years. He grew up and graduated high school in Qulin, Missouri a small farming town in Southeast Missouri. The next big step in his life was a tour in the U.S. Navy, Two years in a pilot training squadron in Corpus Christi, Texas. He spent his last two years in the Navy’s Fleet Intelligence Unit for Europe. During his tour of duty in Corpus Christi he took creative writing courses. Calvin became a single father to his two young children at their young ages of 2 and 4, after his wife’s tragic death from Leukemia at age 25. After the death of his wife he took his children and moved to Tallahassee, Florida and spent 22 years in the office of Financial Aid at Florida State University. Beginning his career at the bottom as a clerk, he moved up the ladder and within ten years joined the Financial Aid Management team. He supervised 28 employees, most of whom held advance degrees unlike himself who only had a few college credit hours. After retirement he moved to Palm Gardens where he pursued his life long ambition to be a writer.