Read Me: a novella

by Keith Minnion

Cy is a student at a major university in upstate New York. He is an art major, studying painting. He is also haunted. He survived a horrific automobile accident when he was just five, an accident that took the lives of both of his parents. So who is haunting Cy? Some spirit attached to the rooming house where he lives...or someone else?

98 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 6, 2021

About the author

Keith Minnion sold his first short story to Asimov's SF Adventure Magazine in 1979. He has sold over two dozen stories, two novelettes, an art book of his best published illustrations, two story collections, and one novel since. Keith was a book designer and illustrator from the early 1990s to the 2010s, and also did extensive graphic design work for the Department of Defense. He is a former schoolteacher, DOD project manager, and officer in the U.S. Navy. He currently lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, pursuing oil and watercolor painting, and sometimes even fiction writing.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The story has a connection to the past. Cy's parents die in a car accident when he was five years old. Why did he survive? He found some kind of communication with the dead when doing paintings of meninges cauls (!) for a strange professor of medicine at university. Cy wants to become an arts major and excels in drawing. We write the year 1974 and the story starts with a crime. Beside classic university life from back then we see the main character (Cy) move into a mysterious woman and madness. What a haunting and page turning tale. Couldn't put the story down and hope that the author returns one day to this topic. He could feature a novella on Betsy for instance... I really would love to read how this tale continues... Highly recommended. Weird but fascinating!