Beyond the Point

A Terrific Pounding On His Farmhouse Door Shakes An Old Man Widowed And Alone From A Fitful Slumber. From Out Of The Swirling Snowflakes Of The Worst Storm In Decades Comes A Menace That The Aged Farmer Is Ill Prepared To Deal With. The Sea Shell Frame. Lyle Wingate Iii Sets Off In His 1974 Mgb For A Cross- Country Trip To California. Passing Through The White-Hot Heat Of A Drought Filled Kansas Summer The Old Car Gives Out Stranding The Young Traveler In A Treeless Expanse That Offers Little Hope Of Rescue. In A Desolate Old House Wingate Encounters A Being Not Of This World Whose Designs On His Body Go Beyond Anything His Mind Can Imagine. All The Pleasures Of Kansas. Asa Breen Hacks Out A Farmstead On The Trackless Northern Illinois Prairie Only To Be Caught Up In An Indian Invasion Led By Chief Black Hawk In The Spring Of 1832. A Chance Meeting With A Potawatomi Maiden Saves His Life And Commences A Post War Saga In Stillman'S Run. Boys Struggle To Reach Manhood And Deal With The Pitfalls Of Decision-Making And Romance In The Stories Entitled A Catfish Is A Plain Damned Wonderment The Rookie And The Senior. Ed Lecrone Produces A Collection Of Eleven Short Stories That Are Filled With Twists Intrigue And Unexpected Endings In His Second Book; Beyond The Point. Lecrone'S Writing Style Harkens To Earlier American Authors Namely: William Faulkner Edgar Allen Poe Mickey Spillane And The Lesser-Known Ambrose Bierce. Lecrone Attacks The Pages Of Each Story With Memorable Characters And Full Meaty Descriptions Of The Environment In Which They Exist.