Moonlight Over a Resurrection

Though it is not my intent to allow this work to descend into the realm of self promotion, I fear it is necessary as it is relevant to tonight’s tale. I wrote a novelette entitled Escaping the Old Charleston Jail, and it is available on Amazon. It’s a dark tale about man at odds with the world around him. He turns to alcohol to dull the pain of fitting in, but the alcohol becomes a prison to him. Our doomed hero eventually finds his escape. Unfortunately, his judgment is so ruined that he escapes in the wrong direction. The tale is dark and dramatic, and it does not have a happy ending. And that always bothered me. I wrote it when I was younger, and I figured that’s what happened at the end of a story like that. Tonight’s tale is similar, but it doesn’t end properly. Indeed, It reaches a proper ending, but then it keeps on going and stumbles along even thought its supposed to be over. It moves along in open defiance of the events that should have ended it. In short, tonight’s tale is about a man who refuses to accept the fact that he should be dead. So he acts like he’s not, and the rest of the world just has to deal with it. This tale is pretty dark and deals with themes of addiction and alienation. Moreover, it contains elements of involuntary body modification, which is that the whole bone removal thing from the last episode. And I don’t think its so bad, but at least one of the characters use public transportation a few times, and that may offend some people for some reason. Listener discretion is advised.