The Attic is about the journey of man who lost the most important person in his life and how he finds love again through caring for a dying man. Byron Kelly lost his wife and abandoned a successful career in Seattle to move to Chicago and assume a new identity as Army Bendorf. He stumbles onto an embezzlement scheme. When he becomes a suspect he eludes the FBI by ducking into a house where he becomes trapped in an attic. The resident is a dying old man. As his health Read More …
HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss-shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it–ah, but stay I ‘ll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits,– Have you ever heard of that, I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five, Georgius Secundus was then alive,– Snuffy old drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, Read More …
A Novel of War and Devotion Hollywood is great at making war seem so simple and straightforward, soldiers kill or are killed. And, it makes the watcher believe that people kill each other because they are told because it is kill or be killed, the enemy is hated or whatever. We are left with the image that all soldiers fire at each other in a desperate attempt to hit and kill each other. According to research cited in the book On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in Read More …
Maybe is suspended by a thin thread high up between yes and no, the arbitrator of the two. Yes knows and no knows. Both can be wrong. Maybe sees beyond the end of the stream, knowing it does not end, is always seeking its way home. Maybe knows beyond the dark night that the sun can rise, and beyond the sunset a restful night. Voyage of Life Richard McMaster
The attic is an emotional story about facing adversity and overcoming loss. When BYRON KELLY’s wife dies, he faces assault charges and a lawsuit, and flees to Chicago and assumes a new identity. He takes a low lever computer support job with an international investment banking company where he discovers the CEO of the company is embezzling over 26 million dollars.
Henceforth I ask not good fortune—I myself am good fortune; Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. Strong and content, I travel the open road. —Walt Whitman In this poem from Leaves of Grass, Whitman imagines traveling on the open road as the ultimate egalitarian experience, where beggars and drunkards find themselves beside an eloping couple, a doctor, and a rich man. “None are but accepted—none are but dear to me!” Whitman exclaims. He wants the reader to keep moving with him, never settling for long, never Read More …
Luke and Elizabeth were living the dream and Christmas was just twelve days away. Luke’s day started out so well, everyone was in the Christmas spirit, important decisions had been made and this Christmas was going to be special. That same day Luke loses his job and before they can talk she receives a call and rushes to be with her dying mother. Left alone, feeling deserted, Luke faces thoughts of murder, suicide and fears he is responsible for the hit and run death of a neighbor.
Forty-eight years is a long time and even a longer time to miss the woman you love. The Voyage of Life story is told as the Robert Cole Voyage of Life paintings are described by the woman he loves: Childhood, Youth, Manhood and Old Age. The paintings become a metaphor for Sean’s life–the verdant landscape and calm waters of childhood become turbulent in youth and then early in manhood the shores turn rocky when he believes his one true love left him for another man.
Forrest and Allie believed they found love in a previous life, and being born again was a game of hide and seek to find each other in plain sight, seeking their better halves, united and whole. When tragedy strikes, Forrest makes a pact to find her killer, raise their daughter and find peace by joining her in the ever after.
A Love Divided By Time is one part The Notebook, one part suspenseful psychopath story, and one part Somewhere in Time.
