From dark windows in dim lit desert towns, women fell deeply in love and so followed the wandering boy, he for whom magical trees grew in his wake. "The visual descriptions and breadth of it are stunning...reminds me of the Alchemist or Khalil Gibran, with better writing." Derek Murphy (Best-Selling Author) "The Apricot Boy," by Beard Bates, is a contemporary myth, an imaginative novella outside of time and space,...