Tired of the same old places?
If you're tired of visiting the same old places and willing to try something that isn't "on the same page" as the others, this is the read for you. A multicultural collection of stories based on mythological themes:
Journey to Cherchen - Discover the location of The Lost City of Cherchen, buried beneath the desert for millenniums.
Skating on the Moon - A dream therapist enters Annie Walker's dreams through a "dream portal" and teaches her to make her own world with lucid dreaming.
Maryland House - George Anders seems to know what he's talking about, but someone is putting the words in his mouth.
Riding the Pooka - Take the ride from hell on the Pooka's back.
Angel Under the Bridge - When things aren't right the Angel Under the Bridge straightens them out. The Angel travels the Void to find the reality that's right for you.
About The Author
Growing up, my parents, brother, and sister and I relocated constantly up and down the East Coast of the U.S. and to England and Sweden. I'm still not sure where my home is, but my wife, Deborah, and I, together with our three children, Justin, Lindsay and Russell, have been living in Richmond Virginia for over sixteen years.
I lived in Sweden when I was nine years old and took a correspondence course in English. To supplement my reading I read Charles Dickens, a bit over my head at the time, but it was hard to find books in English there. A few years later it was pulp science fiction, then on to the great British dystopian fiction writers like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess and H. G. Wells. When I hit my late teens I was a total book addict. I read plays, classic literature, and modern American literature: sometimes a couple books a week. I started writing my own stories and stuffing them away in my desk.
I decided to write a collection of mythologically based short stories woven together on an underlying theme of dreams shaping reality. Some of the stories required background research on Celtic mummies in Xinjiang, shamanism, sleeping disorders and insights from Joseph Campbell. It took two and a half years to finish Journey to Cherchen and Other Tales.
About the Book
In the 1970’s and thereafter, perfectly preserved 3,000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote desert region in Xinjiang China. There has been much speculation about the origins of these Caucasian people found in this fascinating area of Central Asia. Journey to Cherchen is a weave of research and speculation about the mummies with an adventure tale. Nick Taylor, an archeologist, is led by subtle supernatural forces along the Old Silk Road to the tomb of an ancient Celtic shaman in a desert town called Cherchen in Xinjiang. He and the shaman have something in common - an extra bone. By looking through a hole in the bone he is transported three thousand years into the past and discovers the location of The Lost City of Cherchen, buried beneath the desert for millenniums.
An experimental operation goes awry in Skating on the Moon and traps Annie Walker, a success driven stockbroker, in a permanent dream from which she cannot escape. A brilliant Indian sleep therapist enters her dream through a "dream portal" and teaches her to make her own world with lucid dreaming.
George Anders is the victim of a mind control experiment in Maryland House. Although he seems to know what he's talking about, someone is putting the words in his mouth.
Riding the Pooka is a tale based on Irish mythology. The Pooka appears in the shape of a horse to a weary traveler and entices its victim to mount on its back. Malachy Hannon is taken on the ride from hell across the countryside and almost doesn't make it home.
There are some things that aren't right in this world, but the Angel Under the Bridge can straighten them out. It comes from another reality in the Void, but uses its unusual abilities to straighten out the wrinkles in the life of an unfortunate girl who jumps from its bridge.
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ISBN-10: 141963402X ISBN-13: 978-1419634024
Richmond, Virginia
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