CrimeSpree
ISBN 978-0-9963969-0-5 - Ebook
ISBN 978-0-9963969-1-2 - Paperback
At the time, the 8th Day Era of America was seen as enlightened. It stood as a testament to scientific advancement and of man's triumph over nature and instinct. Violent crime was relegated to the history books. Viewed as nothing but a barbaric scourge of the past. Murder went extinct, it had been cured.
Mickey Moore grew up in this sanitized version of America. He was a drifter and a small-time cheat. As Mickey matured, he sharpened his con-game, and got by on the misfortunes of others. But trickery and dumb-luck eventually betrayed Mickey, and he found himself broke and homeless as he appraoched middle-age.
Destitute and desperate, Mickey was hitching a ride across the New Mexico desert when fate shoved a new path before him. Under the bright rays of a dying sun, Mickey saw the impossible, he witnessed a murder. Shocked still in disbelief, he marveled at this primal display of man's feral past. The violence before him came at Mickey like a revelation. He was frightened, terrified in fact, but the con-man in him saw an opportunity.
The sensation that Mickey felt was so strong, he felt as it awakened areas of his mind that the 8th Day Era's medicine had put to sleep. To package and sell such an experience was a million dollar idea, and for the first time, Mickey actually believed in something. He would erect CrimeSpree, an amusement park, an interactive museum of man at his worst.
Mickey's venture offered the American public the chance to participate in violence once again. At CrimeSpree, customers paid to play the parts of the victims of violent crime. It was all scary and lecherous fun, as a bored and uninspired public lined up to take part in the charade. But the fun and the games eventually put out the proverbial eye. The monster that Mickey created came to life and it dug human instinct out of the grave. The past was coming back around again. It was coming for America and it was coming for Mickey.
Curse
ISBN 978-0-9963969-2-9 - Ebook
ISBN 978-0-9963969-3-6 - Paperback
Amil Young was born into poverty and disadvantage. His hometown, Fog Lake, was gripped deep within the dark shadows of the Appalachian Mountains. The ridges and thick woods encircled the moribund town like a prison built of stone and bark. But a charmed turn of fate saw fit to deliver Amil from the mud and misery of Fog Lake.
Fleeting though it was, success was found in the game of baseball. His fame lasted barely the fifteen minutes all are promised, but it proved enough time to unfetter him from the shackles of Fog Lake. He left the mountains behind, settled down, and started life anew.
Happiness and domestic security showered thier gifts over Amil and his girlfriend, Ali. Two individuals, once broken, came together to form one life, a full and vibrant companionship that seemed destined to endure into the reaches of old age.
With the passing of the years, old ghosts resurfaced to haunt the couple. The knives of the past tore at the union of Amil and Ali until their bond was severed. Black days descended over the pair, and the guilt of his many failures grafted itself to Amil. A great many things cast shame over him, but it was his violent betrayal of Ali that he could no longer carry. At thirty-seven years of age, Amil took his life.
Lost among the desolation of the afterlife, Amil encountered horrors he could have never imagined while alive. He learned of a new world cut to ribbons by treason, and a pantheon of gods, now feckless, undone by one of their own. However, it was the myriad arrows of time that would serve to most torment him. He found Ali there among the ruin. It seemed cruelly impossible. When Amil elected to take his leave of mortality, Ali was young, decades of life ahead of her.
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Suicide was an exercise designed to rid his mind of vexation. Instead, it had dropped Amil into a challenge, so vast that none before had ever known victory. To free Ali from her suffering, for the chance to set right all he had destroyed, Amil made a deal with the Goddess of death, Aphelianna. With fragile promises of a second chance, she offered Amil a quest.
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Her challenge would send him deep into the land of the dead and back through the fragmented halls of a history nearly forgotten. His target was a key, the sole treasure of Aphelianna's sister, Isadora, the Goddess of life. Amil knew better than to trust the words of Death, but, for Ali, he was willing to forsake anything. However, if he were to succeed and place the key of life into the hands of wicked Aphelianna, everything would prove to be the price. And Amil, a mere man, would come to learn the truth of what everything and evermore come to mean when viewed through the eyes of an immortal.
Until The Water Runs Clear
ISBN 978-0-9963969-4-3 - Ebook
ISBN 978-0-9963969-5-0 - Paperback
Paul Parker is a family man. He is a good man, kind and patient. He is also a fiction conjured up by his mind after suffering brain damage. for decades he carried on this blissful charade as he settled down into a peaceful domestic existence. But eventually the memories of the beast he once was returned to him, red of tooth and claw. unable to reconcile family life with his monstrous past, he vows revenge against those who wronged him years before. Leaving all the good of the last twenty years behind, Paul elects to walk the crooked path he once furiously blazed. The path of violence and death. Security be damned. Peace be damned. The future be damned. The bastards will bleed.
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