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River Park
What would an ordinary man do if he found himself with a secret alien power to remotely hurt people and control them?
In River Park, fifty-two year-old Peter Colley, a fifth grade teacher, is baffled by strange events in his life. A pit bull at a dog park becomes terrified of him. A policeman pulls him over for rolling a stop sign and is overcome with pain, blood gushing from his nose. His elementary school principal is agonized with a migraine while trying to assert authority over him.
Thinking the cause may be the small cylinder of strange metal he came upon while placer mining in the foothills, he visits a zoo and tests it on various primates. Learning, in fact, he can physically affect animals remotely with focused thought. He wonders if it is an alien artifact of some kind.
Unhappy in his second marriage, with a wife and stepson distant to him, with the strange device he calls the Wren, he embarks on a scheme to acquire a great fortune that he might lead a campaign of defiance and eventual rebellion against the federal government he despises.
Acquiring billions of dollars proves no simple or obvious task, though.
Soon, he travels to Washington to wreak havoc on the President and stock market in a plot to make his fortune by hook or crook. While attempting to achieve his designs for great power, circumstance has its designs on him.
River Park is a bold tale of contemporary times lived by one who wishes to be great and never shall be; a man reaching late in life to be more than ordinary but important; striving for meaning and vindication -- the story of everyman left adrift without destiny suddenly fighting against fate and obscurity.
In River Park, fifty-two year-old Peter Colley, a fifth grade teacher, is baffled by strange events in his life. A pit bull at a dog park becomes terrified of him. A policeman pulls him over for rolling a stop sign and is overcome with pain, blood gushing from his nose. His elementary school principal is agonized with a migraine while trying to assert authority over him.
Thinking the cause may be the small cylinder of strange metal he came upon while placer mining in the foothills, he visits a zoo and tests it on various primates. Learning, in fact, he can physically affect animals remotely with focused thought. He wonders if it is an alien artifact of some kind.
Unhappy in his second marriage, with a wife and stepson distant to him, with the strange device he calls the Wren, he embarks on a scheme to acquire a great fortune that he might lead a campaign of defiance and eventual rebellion against the federal government he despises.
Acquiring billions of dollars proves no simple or obvious task, though.
Soon, he travels to Washington to wreak havoc on the President and stock market in a plot to make his fortune by hook or crook. While attempting to achieve his designs for great power, circumstance has its designs on him.
River Park is a bold tale of contemporary times lived by one who wishes to be great and never shall be; a man reaching late in life to be more than ordinary but important; striving for meaning and vindication -- the story of everyman left adrift without destiny suddenly fighting against fate and obscurity.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 11, 2015
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