Going Down Slow
Dream of Death – 1 It’s not what he expected, this dying. It’s taking longer than he thought, for one thing. He’s more familiar with faster ways to die: like the abrupt heart attack that felled his father like a tree; or the fever that took his mother within a week; or the rogue bullet that claimed a classmate’s future one hunting season. But this. They saved him from a massive coronary death, yes–but just so he could go down slow, taking months. Not that he is complaining about the extra time. It’s just not what he expected. And something else he didn’t expect, since after all it’s his heart giving out, is how his mind is unraveling. It started with the forgetting. He’d be chugging along a thought, maybe trying to say something, and...
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I am happy to announce the publication of my psi fiction novel “A Second Chance Life,” available at http://www.thirdplacebooks.com/second-chance-life-teresa-hayden Twenty-six year-old Jude has had strange and deeply disturbing experiences since childhood: talking raccoons, prescient crows, and visions predicting the deaths of people he knows. Only an undemanding job, rock climbing, and a new girlfriend every few months can keep the weirdness at bay. He meets Sara, a grad student in counseling who has an intense interest in studying ESP, especially telepathy. They are drawn to each other, but Jude is afraid to reveal his premonitions, and Sara, who’s been unlucky in love, is wary of his evasiveness. They go their separate ways, though each...
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