Fiction to chronicle the end of the age
Award-Winning Author Jeffrey Allen mays
About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Allen Mays is an award-winning writer, speaker, and teacher. He is the author of the 2014 novel The Former Hero and other stories, essays, and poems. He lives and teaches in Austin Texas.
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The sweeping new retelling of the old, old story like you never imagined
It’s the mid-20th century. Gangsters rule the city.
The leader of a movement is dead, executed earlier that day, the one they called “The Mystic.” His rag-tag crew of followers is in hiding from the authorities at a tavern, The Salty Trawler.
Mafioso Nicodemus Holloway met this Mystic a few months back and he hasn’t been the same since. Now, in the wake of his death, he seeks out the hippies and harlots who loved him to find out more.
Nick hears incredible stories of their murdered leader and the amazing signs and wonders performed at his hand: the heroin-addicted harlot, the insane gun fetishist, the young lady healed of a humiliating 12-year menstrual affliction, and the rich food and flowing wine he provided to all his followers.
What will happen to the entourage now that he’s dead? Nick warms to the group and ultimately risks everything to help them avoid detection, to smuggle away Shayne Lazarus from an assassination plot, and to get home to his long-lost lover and the child of their love.
Musings
Now, Allie! NOW!
“It’s time to go, Allie,” said Jack. He stood beyond the boarding gate looking at her; she had not yet followed him on board. “Where is this thing going?” “Away from here.” The steel platform on which she stood was...
A quick one
This is a writing exercise written in response to the prompt of the photo above. I have modified the description of the item in the picture for the purposes of the story. “David! Would you come here...
An Interview with Satan
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