Elvis, Change Your Name (A Story Outline) Comments

Jack Lawson, an alienated teenager, a loner who has grown up in an urban slum combatting school-yard bullies, slips in and out of vivid fantasies about the dead rock stars, particularly Elvis Presley.

Jack pretends that they have been actually living under the witness protection program all this time, but have recently escaped from surveillance and gathered together in a ghost town in the western desert. Reality and fantasy alternate rapidly in this story and the fantasy feels stronger throughout, steadily increasing its influence on the rather drab and depressing realities of the boy's life.
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