Butchie Boy Blue

By Don Richards

For everyone who has stood at a graveside and refused to believe the person they loved had simply ceased.

After losing his mother, a man does the only thing that makes sense to him. He tries to build a case that she's still out there, somewhere. The physics, the philosophy, the evidence that consciousness doesn't just stop. He builds it and it's airtight. It just doesn't bring her back.

On an ordinary Tuesday night, sitting alone with an antique radio, something comes through the static. Not a voice. A smell. Fried chicken and bacon fat and fresh homemade rolls, from a kitchen that no longer exists.

The signal pulls him somewhere he wasn't prepared to go: a roller skating rink where nobody can see him except a ten-year-old boy standing against the wall. A boy who knows things about the electromagnetic spectrum that he shouldn't. A boy who has been waiting for him.

What follows is a walk through a neighborhood he hasn't visited in years, past a church, a store where someone knew his name, a porch with one chair worn to the shape of one person, to a kitchen that was still broadcasting.

Butchie Boy Blue is a story about grief, faith, and the stubborn refusal to believe that death is the end. For readers of The Shack, 90 Minutes in Heaven, and Proof of Heaven, this novel wrestles with the question we all carry but rarely say out loud: Is there life after death, and are the people we've lost still somewhere? The answer waiting at the end of that walk may change how you think about everyone you've ever had to let go.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7XWZG94
• ISBN13: 9798184597706
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"