Jim Baugh

"Hooked" with bonus book, "Aftermath"! Two books in one volume!

A young boy raised on the docks of the Chesapeake Bay escapes his mother severe mental illness. Adulthood brings family, over a 25 year television career, and the perilous insane comedic journey of online computer dating. A hilarious secular southern Gothic autobiographical story about one mans faith that started under the bloom of a Magnolia Tree.

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“AFTERMATH” Triennial Memoir is the sequel to Jim Baugh’s first novel HOOKED. The Magnolia tree adventure continues with uproarious hilarity even in the face of homelessness. This journey of contrast includes foreclosure dating, gourmet smoked BBQ butts, black cars, miracles and romance in Cedar Key.

“AFTERMATH” Triennial Memoir is the sequel to Jim Baugh’s first novel HOOKED. The Magnolia tree adventure continues with uproarious hilarity even in the face of homelessness. This journey of contrast includes foreclosure dating, gourmet smoked BBQ butts, black cars, miracles and romance in Cedar Key.

Preface: This short story is an almost exact account of a dream I had one early Sunday morning in January 2014. This dream was a subconscious representation of the desire in my real life of wanting something very badly, but not able to have without a lot of patience and sacrifice.
This period in my life, around two years saw many life changes. Homes lost and found, financial ruin and gain, loss of dear friends, and gaining new ones. Very hard sacrifices only to be rewarded by gain of biblical proportions, at least to me. So, in our sleep sometimes our mind can create an adjacent world that is only a fragmented reflection of our real one. What this rather bizarre dreamscape really represents to me is to walk by faith and not by sight.