One More Time, New Roads

by David Howells

  SHORT STORIES BY THE AUTHOR

  SWITCH CHILD – an aging maintenance man is called to the police station to tell what he knows about a most peculiar series of electrical fluctuations across the city. He will have to be creative about keeping to the truth while protecting the real reason for situation. He has an injured child to protect, one with a very special talent.

  GRADUATION DAY – most of us have had at least one. How do you encapsulate over a decade of formal education and growing up into a very short speech? Many have tried, but the Valedictorian and the Salutatorian at Merrihew High came up with a program that was unlike any you’ve ever seen.

  DELUSION – sensory deprivation chambers can be immensely therapeutic, and wonderfully helpful in spiritual introspection. But they have a danger, for some cannot handle the deprivation of touch and sound without serious side effect. One man was confined for far longer than planned due to a power failure, and what he changed into caused quite a stir.

  SINS OF THE FATHERS – revenge is the battle cry for so many crimes. A police officer called upon to mediate a hostage crisis finds just how far a young man will go to retaliate for his mother’s demise. That man’s plans will deeply impact a half dozen people, changing their lives forever.

  HALF A MIND – split personality or two actual individuals in one brain? That alone would have been a fascinating study. The importance of which is the case escalates when one of the personalities is a murderer.

  SAND SOLDIER – life is not a circle…it’s a spiral. Passing through life, a child, then a young man, then a soldier, will see patterns return each cycle that both reassure and frighten him, hitting him hard after waking in a hospital ship after the invasion of Normandy.

  NOVEL WORKS BY THE AUTHOR

  TIME SNAP – “In The Beginning” are the first words of Genesis, and they tell us that the first thing to be created was Time. When the machinery of Time fractures, all animal life on Earth freezes except those near enough to Heaven’s observation portals. While Heaven races to repair the machinery of Time, Host watch over Humans wandering through frozen life seeking other survivors, while watching out for Opposition Host.

  HELL RISE - The sequel to Time Snap. Hell is not what it used to be, as the Fallen Host radically change how they manage Human souls. One of Lucifer’s leading Angels wants Moriah back in Hell and will stop at nothing to either bring her back, or destroy her.

  VANESSA – A mentally fractured and hideously powerful spirit of a Georgian plantation and slave owner hold in thrall the men and mounts of a Civil War foraging party. She is avenging the death of her husband and children by putting the enemy spirits through a daily ritual of Hell. Ryan Fitzgalen was rendered spiritually clairvoyant and caused to be the world’s oldest man by a WW II experiment using electromagnetic power for naval stealth technology. He and the spirit of his deceased wife, Vanessa, are no match for Mad Annie, and so must call in his distant descendents to even the playing field.

  VANESSA: FAMILY TREE – Sequel to VANESSA. The epic battle was over at the Edwards Estate. The Fitzgalen Family regroups to lick its wounds, mourn its dead, and pursue their mission of saving souls stuck on the Earth plane. What happens when an underground spirit desperately hiding from judgment beneath the ground doesn’t want to be found, and is ready to strike anyone who tries?

  VANESSA: ALL HEAVEN BREAKS LOOSE – Sequel to Vanessa: Family Tree. Ever since humans began to wonder of the world’s miracles, knowledge of death and what comes after was precious and elusive. The Fitzgalen Family appears to have new authority in this awareness. That unwanted notoriety has a way of creating devotees, and very powerful enemies.

  VANESSA: MENDED HARPS – Sequel to Vanessa: All Heaven Breaks Loose. When a human spirit merged its energies with an ancient oak tree during the Battle of the Rhinebeck Cemetery, a new species was born. Amidst legal entanglements that hamstring the growing Fitzgalen Family’s efforts to pursue its holy mission of spirit liberation, a greater question arises; how do you deal with an emerging competitive species?

  VANESSA: FALLEN COLORS – Sequel to Vanessa: Mended Harps. Conclusion of the VANESSA series. The world’s religions have witnessed great changes, miracles, and proof that the dead walk the earth. Earth feels poised on the brink of a great change. The one who has a hope of leading the world away from cataclysmic holy wars of dominance is an autistic child, who is guarded by a being of great power…an Angel, Avenger Class.