http://ukoo.org/returntoukoo

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, [http//www.writersvillage.com].  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."

In Return to UKOO, Homicide detective Dale's 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 amnesia over his first eighteen years.  "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 he 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 and geese-riding race of three foot tall Migolites?  Running out of bullets? 

Hold your breath and expect to smile.