"Waking up in bright lights is always very startling to me. Waking up in bright lights with a bunch of tubes coming out of every orifice of my body is downright disconcerting."
Pagan ethnology and an emotional roller coaster dominate the life of a writer of fiction who finds himself in a nursing home after experiencing head trauma. The ensemble of damaged characters, combined with the impaired writer’s perception of them, create a less than therapeutic milieu for our hero in this tale set in Northwest Pennsylvania. Readers are compelled to gawk as if sneaking a peek into a sideshow tent, sometimes laughing even when they know they will probably go to hell for doing so. For an encore, we are gifted with the twisted tale of The Place Where Dreams Go To Die. As desert, we are served The Rapture; a unique and superbly crafted short story.