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STRANGE CHANGE Chapter 1 THE DREAM OF THE WINGED MONKEYS Standing at his open locker and tightly clutching his gym bag, 14-year-old Trenton Letreque, a popular student at Lakefield High School, knew he could do it. Knew it the moment the childhood memory seared his mind like a lightning bolt two weeks ago. A memory provoked by an advertisement for the annual showing of The Wizard Of Oz, with several scenes from the classic film, one of which was the winged monkeys flying to the wicked witch’s...

HARMONY'S ANGEL Chapter 1 DEMONS AND DARKNESS Sixteen-year-old Harmony Hammerschmidt had fantasized several different ways of killing Uncle Bob in the three years since being abandoned by her mother on his doorstep, the top floor of a three-flat on Chicago’s far west side. In fact she entertained three murderous fantasies specifically. The first involved killing only Uncle Bob. She would simply wait for some Saturday afternoon when Aunt Rosie was gone with the kids, Melissa, 12, and Jerry, 13...

CLOUD DROPS Chapter 1 NIGHT-FLIGHT …and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. — EZEKIEL 1:20 Slowing to 50,000 miles per hour, the UFO enters the upper stratosphere with the circle of its 18 fiery bluish-white lights appearing to blink. But it is only an illusion created as the huge disc, passing through the mists and vapors at supersonic speeds, arcs towards the Earth and begins its descent. From the Earth far below it might ap...

Chapter 1 THE EGGMAN The heat of mid-August had no mercy on the little town of Harlot. It was hot and dry and the farmers of northern Illinois were pleased. The season had been perfect. The spring rains had come right on time, just after planting, and the blessing had continued with perfectly timed intermittence throughout the summer. Now the corn was tall and healthy and emerald-green, the long, slender leaves of the sturdy stalks rustling gently in the breeze. For the farmers this was the g...