Between You, Me and the Gatepost

Between You, Me and the Gatepost is a coming of age story. It chronicles

the early life of Eugene Cannon. He is a boy growing up among the remnants

of Jim Crow in the late 1950s and the dawning of the sexual revolution in the

1960s. He is catapulted between contrasting worlds of the ambivalent South

and the socially ambitious North. Eugene struggles to establish his own beliefs

between these extremes. The violent loss of his mother stimulates the swaying

of the pendulum in his precarious existence. His confl icts are emotional and

psychological. Uncouth role models infl uence unhealthy resolutions which fail

to satisfy his young mind; a mind where decisions are dictated by passion rather

than reason. Eugene matriculates through high school preparing for college as a

teenage father. His survival is uncertain and his potential for genuine affection

is damaged. If he retreats into one of his myriad facades he could disappear for

ever. No one has been privy to his authentic mind. When the truth is revealed

it will be among his most intimate companions.