Born during the Kennedy era and raised in the Bay Area, I was just a kid who asked big questions—about how televisions worked, why silence followed violence, and why no one talked about the brokenness inside good homes.
After serving in the Army and spending years in electronic repair, I turned my sharp eye for systems toward a different kind of wiring: the generational dysfunctions woven into American families.
Father from a Putrid Tree isn’t just a book—it is a reckoning! Inspired by buried truths, societal silences, and the rot that often hides beneath respectable titles, I simply poured my life’s observations into fiction that feels all too real.
I don’t write to shock—but to expose what’s buried beneath the facade. To ask, What are we passing down, and at what cost?
Now retired, I also build model racetracks in my garage… and stories that race through your mind long after the last page.
Broken people hurt people. The cycle only stops when someone bleeds enough.
Money, violence, authority becomes a weapon when no one dares to question it.
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To dissect generational trauma like a technician troubleshooting a broken machine—exposing the faulty wiring of society through stories that unsettle, provoke, and force readers to confront uncomfortable truths.
A world where fiction doesn’t just entertain but acts as a mirror. I want my books to haunt shelves like unhealed scars, reminding people silence fertilizes evil.
Write fearlessly! If it doesn’t make my hands shake or my conscience squirm, it’s not honest enough. The darkest tales are warnings dressed in ink.
Veteran, fixer, thinker—Richard Hodge writes with grit, heart, and a fearless lens on generational truth and trauma.
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