In Fort Walton Beach and Tallahassee, Heap wrote his second series of books, which he called his chronicle. Seven books.

I guess the last book, he had moved to Delray Beach, by then.

BLIVET ET AL. I considered this four books, with the beginning, the middle, and the end knocked out. One great long book, Against the Grain, contained FLUSH, BLAST, and STRETCH. Where it went from there, I'm not sure. I used to have a chart, but I can't find it. This would have covered working as a tech writer in Fort Walton Beach, Balder being born, going into the VA hospital with high blood pressure, getting laid off, moving to Tallahassee, being fired by the Department of Commerce, then blackballed as a troublemaker when I filed a grievance, being snubbed by the writers' clique, evicted, arrested for drunk driving, quitting drinking, digging at Andersonville. There must be some titles missing. I remember one about the Second Seminole War. Brenda puts the kids in nursery school and goes back to work in the state archeology lab. Laid off after Andersonville, but get hired to dig at the Old Capitol.

BOOK. Digging at the Old Capitol. WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Demolition is preservation. Laid off. My father dies. Brenda goes into the field, to Big Cypress Swamp.

SHIT FIRE. An exchange of letters with Jack Neff about moving back to Delray Beach, moving in with my mother, and taking a job at the bank. Brenda goes to work for Mitel, in the tool crib.

IN THE WIND. An abortive attempt to write something commercial. A murder mystery. About the Sandy Creek/Taylor County sinkhole murders Brenda was an expert witness on. Ill-conceived. When BOOK came back from New York I thought I was finished as a writer. What with my necktie job at the bank.