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Kevin didn't want anyone to see him thinking about Aunt Lucille, because whenever he thought about her there was a good chance he might cry. It made Kevin feel all soft and weepy when he remembered sitting in front of the huge stone fireplace at Red Oaks, Aunt Lucille's great house int eh Kentucky bluegrass country. There, Kevin had his own little room up in the attic, and this own Thoroughbred horse to train and ride. Winky was the name of Kevin's horse, and he had fed and cared for him from the time he was a little colt. It had looked as though Winky had a great future as a racer, and Kevin was going to ride him in the Kentucky Derby. All that changed the day Kevin was sent to Lexington with Simms, the handyman. They had driven over to Aunt Lucille's Rolls-Royce to get a new silver snaffle for Winky. How could Kevin have known that something would go horribly wrong at the nuclear reactor in Cogginsville, just two miles away from Red Oaks? How could Kevin have known that Aunt Lucille and Winky, and all the other horses, and Red Oaks itself would light up with a strange blue glow, and that the entire place would be put off limits, and quarantined forever by the Atomic Energy Commission? Kevin would never see Winky and Aunt Lucille again - and how was he to know? Still, Kevin felt that somehow it was all his fault. (Pinkwater, Daniel,
"Young Adult Novel", Young Adults, New York: Tom Dorerty, 1985)
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