by Dani J Caile
Guido, it isn’t. Sign here, please.” Reginald handed him a quill and Guido signed on the dotted line indicated, above ‘said party’.
“Does that mean…?”
“Yes.” Reginald signed above ‘said service provider’. “I’m sending you back. Hope to see you again. Not soon, of course, but that’s relative.” Reginald put the contract back together and smiled at Guido. “Goodbye.” Guido felt a little strange, more strange than he’d felt the whole day.
“What…? What’s happening?”
Reginald gave Guido a little wave. “Remember, coincidences are the best.”
The room in which he was in disappeared, to be replaced with darkness. He suddenly sat up in bed. His bed, his room. He looked over to the alarm clock and it showed 6:35 am. Over in the corner of the room was his luggage for the flight and cruise. He had returned.
“I’m alive.” Guido was ecstatic. “I’m alive!” The banging on the ceiling indicated that so were his upstairs neighbours.
“Keep it down! We’re trying to get some sleep up here!”
“Sorry!” He jumped out of bed and touched his body, he was physical, he was real once again. “I’m alive.”
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12
He remembered he’d ordered a taxi for 8.15 in the morning, and he was out brisk and early, with a new vim for life, a new smile on his face, and a burning desire in his heart, though that could have been indigestion. The sun wasn’t out yet, the sky was quite grey, but it didn’t darken his positive outlook. He was a new man, a new...what did they keep saying? Monkey. He felt like monkeying around. A taxi came speeding down the road towards him, and he thought of Satan. One more for him. The taxi stopped next to Guido and he went to open the door. Another hand beat him to it, one connected to a young pretty woman, who opened the door, slipped herself and her luggage in and gave Guido a little guilty smile. She articulated ’Thanks’ through the window, and Guido returned it with a ’That’s okay.’ He started to walk down the street, knowing that he had enough time to find another taxi.
“Hello?”
“Yes?” Guido turned around to see the young woman had got out of his taxi.
“Err, can we go halves? I don’t seem to have enough money.” She showed him her purse.
“Err, sure, right.” Guido rushed back to the taxi and took the backseat next to her, sitting his luggage at his feet.
“Where to?” The taxi-driver looked through his rearview mirror at the two of them in the back.
They replied in unison. “The airport.” Looking at each other, they giggled. The taxi sped off and there was a moment of embarrassed silence between them.
“So, the airport?” Guido asked.
“Yes, I’m meeting my Gran there.”
“Oh, right.” Guido noticed her luggage. “Are you flying?”
“Yes, we’re flying off to meet a ship.” The young woman coughed politely.
“I’m, err, meeting a ship, too. A cruise.”
“Really?” She turned to him. “Me and my Gran, we’re going on a world cruise, starting in Los Angeles, LA. What about you?”
“LA? I’m going on a world cruise too, starting in LA. It just has to be the same ship!” Guido couldn’t believe the coinicidence.
“Yes, I suppose it is!”
“Oh sorry, my name’s Guido, by the way.”
“Gui…?” The young woman’s face scrunched up.
“Guy, you can call me Guy.” He’d never thought of using Guy before.
“Guy. Hi, Guy. I’m Sandy.” They shook hands and smiled.
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And now…
….continue to…
…the 1st book in the trilogy…
Take a devilish romp through a world of death, where souls pay for experiences, monkeys are the hosts, and Reginald is the service provider.
Reginald has been in control for millennia. With His staff of hundreds, and millions of souls passing through to experience the delights of physicality, his reign has become complacent. His servants, Satan and Lucifer, jump at the chance to take what they see as rightfully theirs.
The Grim Reaper, or Graham Reader as he calls himself, has been doing his job of transporting souls ever since he can remember, to gain his wings. But he has become tainted by the actions of the monkeys living on the planet. Unbeknown to him, a plan is afoot to change the status quo of 'up above' and 'down below', where he is a linchpin to both interested parties.
“Sharp, dark and sardonic are rarely found wrapped in single package” Greg Levin (Notes on an Orange Burial)
‘Man by a tree’
by
Dani J Caile
https://www.createspace.com/3731273
…the 2nd book in the trilogy…
With only one sane man in the desert, can the answers he seeks be found? Or will it be the death of him?
In a time when hobgoblins and angels run amok, can the universe survive the petty struggles of the powers that be? Based on as yet unreleased papyrus scriptures found in a 2nd floor bedsit in Lewisham, England, this is the 'true' story of one man.
"Irreverent, quirky and fun" Fredrik Nath (The Cyclist)
"...a light and breezy read..." Iso Nuys (Paid on Return)
"I loved it!" Dave Tarragon (The Chemo Diaries)
"A bible story turned into a cocktail drink" Dr. Krisztina Kodó (University professor)
‘The Bethlehem Fiasco’
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…the 3rd book…
Bombs, angels, dolphins, hobgoblins, crazy monkeys, Reginald in a rage, Satan on the toilet...all mixed with absurdly serious issues.
Will a selfish plan for immortality destroy the human race? Or will there be light ‘beyond’ the end of the tunnel?
High Chief of Security Sipho, with his female dolphin sidekick Kang Dee, investigates the latest in a long line of terrorist attacks by the ‘unseen’ against Atlantis, the utopian gem of the physical universe, and finds more than he could have ever imagined.
‘The Rage of Atlantis’
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…and the 4th book.
Reginald sends Graham Reader (aka the Grim Reaper), out on a mission to find Code 237-Manna-X, the Manna Machine after the Overlords warn him of an imminent (3000 year old) threat against the security of both the physical and non-physical realms. Will Graham find the fantastic yet deadly device before anyone or anything else does?"
"I haven't come across anything quite like this..." Debbie Roxburgh (Speedy McCready)
"With your wily work [Dani], I tend to focus on what's in parentheses. (I also think you are very misunderstood...and possibly always have been.)" Eponymous Rox (B.O.T.)
'Manna-X'
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