Gene Fackler was four years old when his family first moved to Austin in 1950, and with the exception of several short, job-induced departures, he has lived his entire life in Texas.Gene excelled in creative writing from grade school to college and completed two volumes of poetry in the 1970s. Then, in the 1990s, several haunting events that occurred during his teen-aged years forced themselves onto paper, and he began completing chapters on trips to the Chelsea Hotel in New York City and the Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy.Then, after retiring from a long airline career in 2009, he completed the entire narrative while tending his cattle and a teen-aged son on a farm forty miles east of the Texas Hill Country that he grew up in.