Basic gist of it, since I didn't get very far: This story would give an insight into Dami's criminal past. (Skip the rest of this intro if you don't want a few minor spoilers for D Is For Damien.) It starts out with the armed robbery that gets him in such hot water with girlfriend Kat much later on, and other parts of the story, unwritten, would help describe how he got to where he is today. In the story he was to get involved (no, not romantically) with the daughter of the shopkeeper he helped rob so long ago, when as a witness to a crime, she ends up being threatened. All sorts of misunderstandings and chaos were to ensue and it was meant to be quite entertaining...and it wouldn't contribute one real thing to the ongoing Scorpio mythos (aside from giving a bit of Dami's background info). I was to attempt this same approach in a slightly later novel, My Day To Be Dangerous, but never got to as far as I recall. As expected, I did not warm to these novels as much as I did to the Scorpio-mythos ones. The D4D series could probably do just as well without them.
This story was written in a composition book, my old favorite form of self-publishing. I have a "Copyright 1992" notice in it, and in the timeline this story is supposed to date to July 1992--plus, there's reference to City Of The Sun, which itself dates to 1992; so I'll assume that's the year of first writing. (Bonus fact: The main title page resembles a ransom note.)
Front, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Back
D is for Damien 3
On the Run
Rachel H. [last name omitted]
Author of City of the Sun
[Note--it seems to have originally read, "Author of Akhenaton & Nefertiti."]
8th in the D is for Damien series
Dedicated to Mya and the summer of '88 (even though I hadn't thought of Damien yet just then).
Copyright ©1992. All rights reserved.
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