Resurrection: A Short Story

by Bob Batchelor

In this haunting short story of fear and liberation, a young mother in 1970s New England must escape with her two sons from a terror-filled past. She has one chance to start over again… Steven, just seven years old, wears a homemade cape and spends sleepless nights in dread. He is haunted by what he has seen and carries the secret like an anchor around his heart. The boy’s future is at the core of this beautiful, heart-wrenching short story. Bestselling author Bob Batchelor’s “Resurrection” is the first story in the “A Moment in Time” series, which explores the lives of people who yearn for better days ahead as they battle the forces that keep them from fulfilling their dreams. Secrets, desires, dangerous revelations, and heartbreaking love and agony fill these tales of people and families we know and see all around us. Each “A Moment in Time” story can be read in a single setting. Share it with someone you love. Visit the author, an award-winning biographer and cultural historian (Rookwood, The Bourbon King, Stan The Man Behind Marvel) at www.bobbatchelor.com

21 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 19, 2020

About the author

Bob Batchelor is a critically-acclaimed cultural historian and biographer. He is the author of Stan Lee: A Life (Rowman & Littlefield, October 2022), Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel, Young Adult Edition (Rowman & Littlefiled, October 2022), and Roadhouse Blues: Morrison, the Doors, and the Death Days of the Sixties (Hamilcar Publications, November 2022).

He has published books on Bob Dylan, The Great Gatsby, Mad Men, and John Updike. His latest, Rookwood: The Rediscovery and Revival of an American Icon, An Illustrated History won the 2021 Independent Publishers Book Award for Fine Art. The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius won the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award for Historical Biography. Stan Lee: The Man Behind Marvel was a finalist for the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction.

Bob’s books have been translated into a dozen languages and his work has appeared in Time magazine, the New York Times, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Los Angeles Times. Bob is also the creator and host of the podcast John Updike: American Writer, American Life. He has appeared as an on-air commentator for The National Geographic Channel, PBS NewsHour, PBS, and NPR. Bob hosted “TriState True Crime” on WCPO’s Cincy Lifestyle television show.

Bob earned his doctorate in American Literature from the University of South Florida. He has taught at universities in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as Vienna, Austria. Bob lives in North Carolina with his wife Suzette and their teenage daughters.

For more information, visit www.bobbatchelor.com.