FOSSIL TOWN

By Aaron McAlexander

The great recession of 2008-2010 was a triple whammy for Dr. Max Alexander. While he was having coronary bypass surgery he was terminated from his job. The following year, he lost a large part of his retirement fund in the recession. While still in a state of emotional and physical recovery, Dr. Max headed for his vacation cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, his longtime retreat where he intended to kick back and lick his wounds. Currently single approaching retirement age, he needed to decide on his next course of action should and what options he had in lieu of becoming a recluse. On his way to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Dr. Max made a wrong turn and ended up in Fussellton, the failed textile town where he had begun his career as a physics teacher thirty-five years earlier. While eating lunch at a burger joint in Fussellton, he picked up a local newspaper and saw an ad teaching positions at the local community college. Although he had not been happy while teaching high school math when he was in Fussellton years before, he needed a job, so he applied for one at the college. The town had long been referred to as "Fossil Town" because of its backwardness, but when Dr. Max was offered a job teaching physics at the college, he took it. He soon encountered some of his students from the past, including his boss at the college, the female associate dean. Another ex-student, now the editor of the local newspaper, soon becomes a good friend. Even the local barber is one of his former students. During his first few months of teaching in Fussellton, Dr. Max is talked into writing a science column for the local paper, becomes romantically entangled with his boss, and becomes the target of a local fundamentalist religious leader who objects to both what Dr. Max is teaches at the college and what he writes for the paper. Later on, when the lusty lady who owns and operates the local Rock, Fossil, and Alternative Medicine Shop gets Dr. Max in her romantic sights, things get even more interesting.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BYLXV3CH
• ISBN13: 9798374619140
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 375 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"