Sixteen-year-old wunderkind of the Junior Dropout Basketball League, a shamanic force of destruction and murder who changes his name to Ocean Singe Horror on an LSD trip during a basketball game.

Art gallery receptionist, Billy’s sixteen-year-old girlfriend, and unwitting accomplice in thirty thousand murders.

Billy’s father, coach and owner of the Bolammes basketball team, an ineffectual, dreamy art gallery owner as well as a wealthy do-gooder who started the Junior Dropout Basketball League with his wife Madeline.

Billy’s mother and the director of the Bolamme Center for Hurt Feelings.

Bolammes regular announcer, Universe’s father, and the man who must finally summon the courage to confront Billy.

Former Bolammes player, Bolammes co-announcer, Billy’s victim, and Dan’s Banquo.

Universe’s mother and dean of the Billy State University School of Library Science.

Detective with the Plattville Homicide Bureau.

Surviving witness of the Baltimore disaster who dies after giving testimony about Billy’s involvement. Jonathan is only mentioned in passing in the book, has no lines, but is nevertheless a major psychic force.

Digital edit of Billy Bolamme 2016 journal drawing. Removed basket assembly and cropped to 6 x 9 ratio for possible alternate book cover.

Colored pencil on inkjet print of Billy Bolamme 2019 Black and White.

Colored pencil on inkjet print of Frank Chester black and white image.

Though this cover was hastily thrown together for a Draft 2 EPUB for proofing, the mini-sized basketball convinced me that the final cover had to have a basketball, and regulation-sized.