Synopsis:
In the future, the love of a young man’s life is dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! In Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood — with deadly consequences… A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland… The dead come briefly back to life every year when the astral dimensions align in Day, or Two, of The Dead. A cynical young ‘player’, adrift in the modern, amoral age meets God on a mountain top and his life is changed forever — but not in the way he’d ever imagined.
Excerpt:
Chester, Pennsylvania… 1957
I bit my thumb so hard it bled. It was the only thing that kept me from crying out when they got Bobby Bendrick. Jimmy Jon and I were hiding in this big, stainless-steel food pantry at the Chestnut Park Convalescent Home kitchen when they came in. They’d spotted us out in the hall and had kind of cornered us. The kitchen was the only place to go and we all ran inside. It was kind of funny—they were coming for us and we were looking around for a place to hide. It was a little bit like that party game, you know, musical chairs, where the music’s gonna stop any minute and you got your eye on a chair cause you know you don’t want to be the one that ends up without a place to sit down and then gets kicked out of the game. Jimmy Jon hid inside one of the two pantry doors, and Bobby and I raced for the other one and I beat him there. I couldn’t help laughing at the scared look on his face as I pulled the door closed and he realized there wasn’t any other place to hide. As I looked out through a crack between the door and the frame, they came in. There were two of them, a man and a woman. They immediately saw Bobby and cornered him. He cried like a girl when the man grabbed him.
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About the Author:
Paul Clayton is the author of a three-book historical series on the Spanish Conquest of the Floridas– Calling Crow, Flight of the Crow, and Calling Crow Nation (Putnam/Berkley), and a novel, Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (St. Martin’s Press), based on his own experiences in that war.
Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam was a finalist at the 2001 Frankfurt eBook Awards, along with works by Joyce Carol Oates (Faithless) and David McCullough (John Adams).
Clayton’s latest book– White Seed: The Untold Story of the Lost Colony of Roanoke– is a work of historical fiction.
Paul currently lives in California, with his son and daughter.
