Five Trips To The Edge

by Jim Lyke

A man who falls in love with a woman he passes on the highway during his daily commute. An amusement park attraction that comes to life. A young biracial man forced to choose sides when a not-so-United States erupts in racial civil war. A love affair between the ghost of a dead woman and the new owner of the house she haunts. And a down-on-his-luck salesman who embarks on a crusade of revenge against everyone he believes has wronged him. This is what you will find among the five short stories that make up Five Trips To The Edge. In Segregation Anxiety, Jordan Jefferson finds himself literally caught in the middle when racial tensions spiral out of control in the USA of the future. In Presidents Day, Geoff Underwood gets more than he bargained for when he visits Disney Worlds Hall of Presidents. Dave Franken decides in The Big Hate that if you cant join em, beat em. And in both Stans Not My Name and Mirror Image, men and women fall in love under extremely unusual circumstances.Quirky, funny, thought-provoking, and even shocking, buckle your seat belt and drive the twisted roads in Five Trips To The Edge.

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2001