The Kelv Enthusiast: Cooper
Kelv was visited by the forgotten dog-faced American novelist Cooper on two occasions.
The first time was when he fought on the frontlines of World War II. He was just a young private in a combat platoon that helped liberate Kelv from Vadok Kaloxzuun’s fascist regime. That was 1948.
Cooper didn’t return for almost 30 years. By 1975, he was riding high on the success of his third book, “The Divided Self” and he was invited by the University of Bladovak to lecture.
After his lecture he was approached by a young woman who announced that she was his daughter. Cooper didn’t know that he impregnated a Kelvic woman whom he had an affair with as a young GI.
This meeting became the subject of a short story that ran in Playboy entitled “The Horn”.
**What the hell is this all about? It’s an excerpt from my upcoming magazine piece “The Kelv Enthusiast” to be published in Mammal Magazine, Spring 2007. Tune in for details.
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