[Dialogue] Other World Rapture - Lost Chapter of IRON BOY

[David Marshall]

Dear former OE/EI/ICA Colleagues - I recently published my memoir, IRON
BOY, covering the twelve years from 1962 until I turned eighteen in 1974
when I lived in a family religious order. The initial manuscript was an
unwieldy 420 pages, so my literary agent and editor helped me whittle it
down to 270 pages. Most of the pages of IRON BOY cover those harrowing
first few years in Chicago, before I was sent forth into the world at
twelve. Now that the book is published, and readers are asking for more
about my “Youth Deployment” years, I decided to share some of these
forgotten, cutting-room-floor chapters with you on Substack for free. Here
are some scenes from one of the most intense, mind-blowing thirty days of
my life in the summer of 1972. Had it been included in IRON BOY, it would
have appeared between the chapters *The Academy* and *Seventeen*. For me,
this summer marked the true birth of the ICA.-David Marshall

https://open.substack.com/pub/marshallbooks/p/other-world-rapture?r=23ftwm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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