Alternate History Western

Tom McCay's expert story telling envelops you like the embrace of a warm fireside on a cold winter's night. In fact, this novelette was conceived in the hemlock and hardwood-filled Sipsey Wilderness of Bankhead Forest in North Alabama. Tom's clever and distinctly southern idiomatic language makes each sentence crackle with imagery and artifice. Equal parts Stephen King and Shelby Foote, he transports us from the present to the past in seconds.

This is the continuing story of the Lightning People who exist amongst us. They have lived alongside normal humans for untold centuries. Once, they were just like us, but after being struck by lightning, they were changed. These changes are not visible to others but the Lightning People see auras around normal humans, they do not age, and are they are sterile.

David fell off a stepladder and broke a coffee cup. It was not just a coffee cup that experienced change that day. The fall somehow linked David to a telepathic alien race, far across the Universe. From that day on, not only was David’s life changed, but so were the aliens.