Beard Bates

The Apricot Boy Beard Bates

From dark windows in dim lit desert towns, women fell deeply in love and so followed the wandering boy, he for whom magical trees grew in his wake.

"The visual descriptions and breadth of it are stunning...reminds me of the Alchemist or Khalil Gibran, with better writing." Derek Murphy (Author)

"The Apricot Boy," by Beard Bates, is a contemporary myth, an imaginative novella outside of time and space, that weaves the tales of a child who was predestined to wander, to enchant, and strangely pay some unknown price for being himself. A fractured and surreal love story between a boy and the girl next door; a story from the heart of dreams, which itself dreams to discover a truth of the universal heart; shape-shifting surreal mythology in the form of a ball of yarns...this is "The Apricot Boy."