Dynamite Time

Dynamite Time presents a story within a story. Theodore Stone unexpectedly receives a letter from Julie his nine-year-old granddaughter the daughter of his estranged son. Julies letter as part of a school assignment innocently asks Did you ever get into trouble when you were little? Theodore responds with a to be continued story that entices Julie into more letters. An exchange of fourteen letters tells the story of himself as a five-year-old boy named Tad with a Shetland pony named Dynamite. He takes her back to 1948 on a farm in rural Montana. A time when Tad wants to be a cowboy more than anything. The ongoing letters spin true adventures both good and bad about Dynamite chores mean farm animals one-room school houses fights rodeos and a variety of boyhood experiences. The exchange becomes an important part of Theodores and Julies lives creating a friendship. As the stories continue Julies dad also becomes interested in the life of the father he never knew. This arouses hope in the empty life of Theodore. Then Julie writes Daddy said that you abandoned him. I have to know. Did you? Reluctantly he tells Julie a final story of an older Tad.