Spirit Lake

<p>JP Stone is a has-been bot-poet and a disgruntled academic coasting into a rather bleak retirement in his secluded quarters in a high rise. He was in love once briefly. Now he wages silent psychological warfare against those around him. But then a stranger comes to town. She wants to meet him and he knows what she will ask. But she needn't meet him to know the answer. The answer is <em>no</em>. He has proof. <em>Spirit Lake </em>is his proof his rude greeting his disavowal and his strange goodbye. Darkly Bright Press is pleased to present <em>Spirit Lake</em> an elegiac confrontation between a man and his tragic past. In this complex character study the author explores the borderlands which superficially divide poetry technology and mysticism. Stone is a hunted man on the run to the scorched mountainsides of the Southwest where the veil between this world and the next is ghostly thin. </p>