Thus Arrived The Lights

by Peter Schnake

Something’s hiding in the glare...Decades after Nancy Myers is threatened to keep quiet about travels she can’t remember, struggling magician, David Aguilera, and Richard Jackson, a pilot on thin ice with both his boss and wife, are sole witnesses to strange lights while their plane plummets. Miraculously surviving the fall, David can’t stop talking about what he saw--and some people don’t like it. David’s priest condemns him while the televangelist and his atheist co-anchor play him for ratings. Meanwhile, fired for his part, Richard and his wife just want to be left alone but are hounded by both the Queen of Media and a ufologist raving about things too wild to be true. And then the men who limp contains violence, sexual situations, and strong language. Not intended for children.

249 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 7, 2012

About the author

Peter Schnake lives and writes in Lincoln, Nebraska. Although stories had a bad habit of interrupting his life and possessing his pen, he didn’t write in earnest until a bout of seizures in his early twenties caused him to reexamine his priorities. Now he devotes as much time as he is able to his writing and hopes soon to make it a full-time occupation.

He believes that stories should surprise and move. Language should be precise and clean and images should evoke and provoke. He believes that happy endings are not always the best endings, and that sometimes a great story dissatisfies.

His writing spans genres, from the dark and brooding Southern Gothic style of “American Alligator,” to the suspense-filled and intimate thriller, “Thus Arrived the Lights.”

When not writing (or drinking coffee) Mr. Schnake enjoys stargazing and watching the Food Network.