Ryan David Fitzgalen and the spirit of his wife, Vanessa, faces a mind fractured spirit
who hold in thrall the spirits of a Union squad of soldiers.
A man whose aging was drastically slowed in a WWII experiment in using magnets to
create a stealth craft was also endowed with clairvoyance. Together with the spirit of
his wife, Vanessa, and with the help of his great, great grandson and his widowed
mother, attempt to untangle the skein of Southern animosities that hold a plantation
owner's wife, her two children, and a Union foraging troop that helped slice Georgia
in half under General Sherman, stuck in a daily cycle on the earth that no one can
break out of.
Excerpt
"Ryan, you talk to people that aren't there and everyone else takes it as nothing special.
That makes you a very rich eccentric whose nut has slipped. Trouble is, nothing else
agrees with that. You guys are tight, wits quick, you mesh like a slick machine that's
been finely tuned by years of working together. I can't believe where this is leading.
If Ryan talks to people that aren't there and everone is sane, there are two options.
First, I'm dreaming." There was a quick motion under the table. "Ouch! Scratcheroonie
on option one. Did you have to be so rough?" Marianne giggled. "Anyway, am I to
surmise that Boss is actually conversing with someone who has scored a granite
headboard?"
MONSTROSITY n. 1. That which deviates greatly from the norm in appearance or structure. 2. The quality or character of being abnormal; hideous; frightful; shocking.
Pieces of Eight, Part II is an eclectic collection of eight imaginative novellas that complement the eight tales that appeared in Pieces of Eight. The selections are a blend of different short story/novella plots and themes. Science-fiction, paranorm
