Lifetime of Moratoriums: A Novella

Senior citizens are being stripped of dignity and clothing, placed on public display in the suburb of Schaumburg, IL in median strips; recycling bins; elementary school playgrounds; dry cleaners; the comically grouped single Saturday of a Civil War Reenactment, Model Airplane Dogfight and Frisbeer Homecraft Brew and Frolf Festival. Blame is laid on MrAld (emerald). He lives alone in his mother’s house with his pet Chinese turtle Mao. He works full-time as the main mall's shuttle bus driver, part-time as a counterperson at Maxi's Meat Shoppe. In his past he was caught wearing nothing but sneakers as he walked his turtle. MrAld is different, but brilliantly organized. He’s befriended by Dana, a deli worker, part-time crop duster and butcher's aide. She helps him expand his very limited horizons of work, home, turtle and Icky's Diner. Sheriff "Chili" White's doesn't believe MrAld is the perpetrator. Only MrAld's organizational psyche, via confidence from Dana, finds the guilty party.