Messages From Beyond

by Phillip DePoy (Received by), Michael Goodman (Imagined by)

Beloved Reader,
These are messages from beyond. For some reason, about ten years ago I began to receive messages from dead men about their perceptions of the afterlife. From them I have determined that the Great Beyond is particular. That is, each man seems to understand it according to his own character, which is apparently retained after death.
These messages came to me in alphabetical order and each is five lines long, which proves there is a plan to the Infinite. I have printed each message exactly as it appeared to me, preceded by my own comments about the man from whom it was received.
I hope some day to receive messages from dead women in alphabetical order, but so far there has not been a word.
The Author

108 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Phillip DePoy has published short fiction, poetry, and criticism in Story, The Southern Poetry Review, Xanadu, Yankee, and other magazines. He is currently the creative director of the Maurice Townsend Center for the Performing Arts at the State University of West Georgia, and has had many productions of his plays at regional theaters throughout the south. He is the recipient of numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the state of Georgia, the Georgia Council for the Arts, the Arts Festival of Atlanta, the South Carolina Council for the Arts, etc. He composed the scores for the regional Angels in America and other productions and has played in a numerous jazz and folk bands. In his work as a folklorist he has collected songs and stories throughout Georgia and has worked with John Burrison, the foremost folklorist in the south and with Joseph Cambell.