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Misty Falls
Todd Seaward is a widower at sixty-nine years old and feels blessed to have inherited a handful and colourful set of friends in his new residential home, Misty Falls. For the first few months in the nursing home, he has made some wonderful friends and although he still pines for his first love, Emily, he feels that his newfound pals, nicknamed, The Healthy Gang, has been the saviour of him, especially his very good friend, Grace Guerra.
As soon as Todd finds his feet and is used to the surroundings and staff, he finds that all this changes with the arrival of new carer, Joseph File, nicknamed, Hopper. It is apparent to all residents that Joseph File is a short tempered individual who has no qualities for the job and is only using Misty Falls as a stop-gap until something better comes along. What the residents don't know about Hopper is that there is a dark side to the forty-year-old male.
After an incident in their friend's room, Todd Seaward and his good friend, Don Swain, upset Hopper and begin to experience this 'dark side' to Joseph File, and the pair of them are subjected to months of infrequent physical abuse from the carer, verbal taunting and other despicable acts. But what Joseph File—Hopper—doesn't know about Todd's good friend, Don Swain, is that he has an unexplainable gift, a gift that he has kept a secret all his life. And this is a gift that is capable of ending all their troubles. But will he use it?
Because Hopper is angered by Todd Seaward and Don Swain after what had happened in the room, the two senior citizens keep Hopper's violent outbursts to themselves in order not to worry the rest of The Healthy Gang or the rest of Misty Falls, as they know that complaining to the management, who are obsessed in keeping the good name of Misty Falls, would be pointless as they have a history of sweeping complaints under the carpet.
This is a sad tale about abuse, love, unexplained events, and also has some funny moments, as well as some extremely sombre ones. The Healthy Gang experience all of these in their short time at Misty Falls, and their stay is soured by some of the events that takes place.
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As soon as Todd finds his feet and is used to the surroundings and staff, he finds that all this changes with the arrival of new carer, Joseph File, nicknamed, Hopper. It is apparent to all residents that Joseph File is a short tempered individual who has no qualities for the job and is only using Misty Falls as a stop-gap until something better comes along. What the residents don't know about Hopper is that there is a dark side to the forty-year-old male.
After an incident in their friend's room, Todd Seaward and his good friend, Don Swain, upset Hopper and begin to experience this 'dark side' to Joseph File, and the pair of them are subjected to months of infrequent physical abuse from the carer, verbal taunting and other despicable acts. But what Joseph File—Hopper—doesn't know about Todd's good friend, Don Swain, is that he has an unexplainable gift, a gift that he has kept a secret all his life. And this is a gift that is capable of ending all their troubles. But will he use it?
Because Hopper is angered by Todd Seaward and Don Swain after what had happened in the room, the two senior citizens keep Hopper's violent outbursts to themselves in order not to worry the rest of The Healthy Gang or the rest of Misty Falls, as they know that complaining to the management, who are obsessed in keeping the good name of Misty Falls, would be pointless as they have a history of sweeping complaints under the carpet.
This is a sad tale about abuse, love, unexplained events, and also has some funny moments, as well as some extremely sombre ones. The Healthy Gang experience all of these in their short time at Misty Falls, and their stay is soured by some of the events that takes place.
Other titles available
The Woods of Red Hill (FREE ebook)
Demons
Billy (FREE ebook)
The Monkey Wing
Clan (Amazon only)
Black Hour
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First published June 15, 2013
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January 21, 2020
Trying a new author in the best a.k.a. free form, as a Kindle freebie. At a glance this was short, intriguing and well reviewed. Upon reading it turned out to be…well, just ok. Never read author’s other books, he seems to specialize in serials, which I don’t care for as a format, with titles like Snatchers and Monsterland I’m thinking zombies and gore…maybe. So again, maybe he just wanted to step back from all that into something positively cozy…well, as cozy as an abuse of senior citizens can be. So here it is…a quaint story about a bunch of amicable oldsters (one of whom is slightly superpowered) dealing with abusive caretakers at a residential facility for the elderly. The story is narrated by the youngest of the gang, a positively sprite 69 year old named Todd. The perpetrator is a mustachioed bastard whose inner evil gets to come out and play among his innocent and helpless charges. Or not so helpless in the end as it turns out. It’s a very straight forward story with no surprises…and not that much to offer in other ways. The description alone is way overdone. So is that quaintness the author chose for the overall tone. It’s overpowering. And this is coming from someone who very much appreciates the older generations, just don’t really appreciate trying to steamroll them all under the same quaint and cozy blanket, it steals dimensionality for one thing. There was an almost geehaw aw shucks factor to these seniors, way, way too much. Other than that, very plain serviceable writing. Nothing that stands out or records itself into the memory. Kind of bland, mildly entertaining, reads quickly. Needed more oomph of some sort, should have had some, I mean how easy of an addition would it have been for a story that utilizes telekinesis. The subject is important, the abuse the story speaks of goes on and gets overlooked in real life, tragically, reprehensively so. It would have been nice for the story to punch that up more, but it worked ok as it was, I suppose. Certainly decent for a freebie, quality wise.
February 3, 2025
Not a bad little story. I wouldn't call it horror, but certainly there are some not so nice things that happen in it. The characters are all well written and I really liked "The Healthy Group". I will say though, that the main character is 69 (same age as me), and he seems kind of feeble, seems more like he should be in his upper 70's or so. The antagonists were pretty disgusting. I wish that Don's special talent had been a little more at play, I don't think it was taken advantage of. In all, so lovely characters and a easy to read story that kind of sucks you in to their lives. 3.8 rounded up
June 15, 2020
The future is never one you may think
This is an excellent book. A good look at how out care home system can be so wrong, with carers who care more about themselves than those in the homes.It is also a wonderful story of friendship and those carers who really care about those people they look after.
A must read for people of all ages
This is an excellent book. A good look at how out care home system can be so wrong, with carers who care more about themselves than those in the homes.It is also a wonderful story of friendship and those carers who really care about those people they look after.
A must read for people of all ages
December 3, 2013
I wasn't sure where this was going as a story and found it hard to get into it! It took a couple of chapters to relax into it but after that the pages just flowed easily! Having worked as an agency nurse throughout various nursing homes I knew that not every person working with the elderly wanted to be there and as a result their care was lacking. Although I didn't quite feel for the main characters of the book I could relate to their experiences,the shock of the death of a friend even though it was inevitable made me realise that maybe mentally we never do grow old!
There was nothing to this story to dislike it was a story with a small twist in it but mainly just a story with a start, middle and end almost like the stories I had to write to get my English lit certs. It was easy to read and nothing too complicated to keep up with! I would recommend it just to see the insight into those living their twilight years and maybe prompt a few to go see their relatives in their homes! It does give a look into how easily it is for those with families and jobs to forget that the older generation miss us, with nothing better to do than think about their families! To them their sons and daughter's are still kids who they worry about. If this story alone convinces someone to go see their elders then I take my hat off to Shaun! Thank you Shaun for giving us a look into our twilight years!
There was nothing to this story to dislike it was a story with a small twist in it but mainly just a story with a start, middle and end almost like the stories I had to write to get my English lit certs. It was easy to read and nothing too complicated to keep up with! I would recommend it just to see the insight into those living their twilight years and maybe prompt a few to go see their relatives in their homes! It does give a look into how easily it is for those with families and jobs to forget that the older generation miss us, with nothing better to do than think about their families! To them their sons and daughter's are still kids who they worry about. If this story alone convinces someone to go see their elders then I take my hat off to Shaun! Thank you Shaun for giving us a look into our twilight years!
September 5, 2013
could have been better. didn't like the supernatural aspect of it...
May 29, 2014
Not what I respected, rather long drawn out and repetitive. Characters were stiff.
January 17, 2017
Very good story, appalling but well written.
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