Sarah Menteith could no longer ignore the haunting dreams of Drake the Earl of Glennis or the escalating mysterious events in her daily life in San Francisco California. Compelled beyond reason she impulsively travels to Loch Ness Scotland to Glendrake Castle to search for answers. Quickly she is immersed in a parallel world of ancient myths and magic that co-exits alongside the 21st century. She opens the door to her ancestry and then her heart when she discovers her love Drake is suspended in time as a vampire from an ancient 900 year old druid curse. Against all odds and with the help from the mystical wizard Merlin they battle dangerous adversaries as they race to the summer solstice to break the ancient curse.
Really, it was not a success as a story. Far too skeletal, too unfinished. He held the notion then that he should leave the reader totally alone with a single incident, an incident free of narrative adornment or psychological probing. He trusted in the poignancy of the incident to carry the load of the basic poetry in life’s common experiences. The work is very short. I trust that I will not weary my reader if I reproduce it:
Growing up on a Wisconsin farm, Glen Drake had no idea about how his WWII experiences would change his life. They left a permanent imprint as he was required to kill a human being for the first time. Years later, back in the safety of his home state, he suffered the after effects of his wartime experience, still imagining once in a while that he was under attack. His confrontations with German soldiers lest him with a hatred of them that persisted into his later years.
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The true story of Fred "O'Caruso", a plane crash survivor who was rescued off the coast of Ireland and grew to appreciate the country and culture during his recovery, eventually becoming a citizen.
