Halloween Innocence Lost

By David Flambures

Set in suburban Alta Loma beneath the sun-baked wall of the San Gabriel Mountains, a twelve-year-old builder diagnosed with ADHD refuses to conform to institutional mediocrity. Punished with carrying forty-one pounds of mandatory hardbound textbooks, he converts the disciplinary weight into downforce ballast-engineering the Screaming Demon, an armored five-foot motorized street luge built from scrap Douglas fir, conveyor-belt brakes, and scavenged powerheads.
Surrounded by eccentric sanctuaries, treehouse redoubts, and a loyal squad of neighborhood outcasts, the autumn of 1992 becomes an escalating war of mechanical defiance: black-market concessions, high-speed descents under commercial flatbeds, and high-pressure pneumatic artillery battles in the alluvial wash.
A visceral, unyielding memoir of velocity, brotherhood, and the unbreakable spirit of an intuitive builder who answered every institutional boundary by constructing an engine worthy of his output.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMQZK4K6
• ISBN13: 9798161844380
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"