After-Image: You can hide - the past will seek

by David Palin

When a stranger attends an evening event in a small town’s art café, his silence and brooding presence unsettle everyone, but three old school-friends in particular. Something stirs from the sludge of their memories. The consequences of a cruel practical joke played thirty years before come back to haunt them, with a disturbing, potentially fatal outcome.

170 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 24, 2016

About the author

David was born in West London and lives in Berkshire. He is the author of several published novels, dark psychological thrillers, the publication of which has led to interviews on BBC Radio and in the local media. David is intrigued by the things that hide, often in plain sight, in the shadows beyond the light of our everyday lives. As a fluent German speaker and having studied English and German literature, he believes we are drawn to darker tales and imaginings.

When not wrapped up in his own writing processes – or being distracted by his other time-consuming loves of sport, music, the theatre and travelling - David is always keen to encourage and support creativity in others. As well as editing and co-writing for various authors, he has run writers’ workshops in as diverse places as Berkshire literary festivals and the far north-west of Scotland!

Reviews

[The Cheshire Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fancy a good old-fashioned ghost story with a twist, and a twist, and then another one? Then read this. This is not set in some outlandish world but rather skirts so close to reality it means you can completely imagine this could happen to you… at least to begin with. Palin manages to interweave the current life of three friends with what happened in their past thirty years ago with a remarkable fluidity. His powers of description evoke a vividness which means you are actually experiencing every second and you feel as if you can’t read fast enough in order to uncover what happens next. It is utterly compulsive reading.