Don Hurst, Fantasy

Don Hurst is 70 and a retired retail store manager living in Northern California. (USA)

He’s a veteran of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. A graduate of Long Beach City College, he has an A.A. in Art; and a B.A. in Expressive Arts from Sonoma State University.

Don found other souls who must write at Writer’s Village University,  He’s a great believer in the Creative Flow, and has a spiritual outlook on life. He believes our differences are not only okay, but necessary in the makeup of the Whole. Much like the wizard in his soon to be published Return to UKOO, he believes all is an illusion. He jokes that he continues to look for himself.

“No matter where I go, there I am—I can either get in the way, or enjoy the company.”

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Don says, “The premise for Return to UKOO came to me while reading J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. What if a forty year old Harry Potter returned to the place of his wizard training, Hogwarts, without a memory of having ever been there?

The rest of Return to UKOO took on a life of its own. The greatest bulk of it came in the early morning hours as I played with my awaking reverie. A yellow notepad served me well as I remembered my dream play. Once my fingertips touched the keyboard I let them type whatever they desired, not editing thoughts or putting restrictions on my judgments. When stuck, I took naps with the problem on mind. Being 70 helped me take naps whenever I wanted. UKOO was out there waiting to be written down, I was merely the recipient of the Universal Knowledge necessary to write it.

The book is the reality, not who wrote it. UKOO just came along and I grabbed onto it. Perhaps for the first time in my writing life, it didn’t matter who wrote the book. Before that, each project had as its goal to see Don Hurst (Early on, Don Douglas Hurst) listed as author. Return to UKOO is its own star.”

Return To UKOO, by Don Hurst

In Return to UKOO Homicide detective Dale Hern’s life consists of dragon dreams and dead bodies.

On his fortieth birthday, he’s yanked through his attic mirror into an alternative universe, the United Kingdom of Otheroff–UKOO. He’s greeted by two blue suns, lavender sky, perfume squirting flowers, and the new boy king, fifteen year Malcolm, who taunts Dale about his early life amnesia. “You don’t remember slaying thirty-seven dragons, mostly big ones?” As UKOO’s new king, Malcolm believes it’s his turn to be hero.

The fun begins when Burney, Malcolm’s pet dragon, saturates Dale with flame as the detective tries to shoot him. Back at the castle, all powerful Wizard Tae debates his talking mirror as the old king’s sword-stuck body decorates the main table. Malcolm’s mother, blond-haired beauty Queen Marilyn, has been kidnapped. The wizard sends Dale and Malcolm on a mission to rescue her.

Can they survive the stink of Poo Pool and the attack of its protector, Suzie Squid? Appreciations Forest? Hisstrike, the monstrous smiling snake? The game of Blazeball, played by a duck riding race of three foot tall Migolites? Running out of bullets?

Hold your breath and expect to smile.

With Don Hurst expect imagination, humor, spirituality and life illusion to meet in the magic of fantasy.