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rank 2000
word count 17009
date submitted 03.05.2009
date updated 03.05.2009
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adu...
classification: universal
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Ephemera

Simon Cowell-Parker

Ephemera is a study of the afterlife. A Journey from a Bristol Housing estate to the secrets of the life Hereafter.

 

The Skyrise Housing estate offers little sanctuary for a sixteen year old boy without a father and without a future. Martin is quick and clever and feigns madness to escape the worst brutality of some of the thugs on the estate, but eventually even he has nowhere to run. It is then that a strange madcap character called Cecil enters his life and teaches him how to tell when danger is near and to foresee the future. From there he begins a journey through a side passage in his dreams into Ephemera: the heart of the afterlife. He begins a training in dealing with the damaged memories of those that are no longer alive and comes to understand the true nature of life after death, but one memory rises above all others to threaten his existence in this world and the next. The memory of his own father.

 
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orma wrote 217 days ago

A very good premise for a story. The pitch really hooks you in.
I've read two chapters and I have to say it's a bit slow moving.
Charatisation is very good though. Cleaverly done.
Maybe a little more dialogue would really bring them to life.
You use the boy's name a lot (Martin did, Martin was, and so on) if it's clear who is speaking, you don't need to use name. He, his him, would suffice.
Your comma usage is a bit erratic. Comma's where they're not needed and left out, when they are.
A good edit would solve these minor problems.
You have a really great imagination and your story is quite unusual.
I wish you all the best.

robin parker-waters wrote 792 days ago

an inspired read. keep the good work up father. ( puts on a posh voice) .

ta
robin x

Joss64 wrote 808 days ago

Backed with pleasure! Joss M. (A Bore No More)

J&M JENSEN wrote 1039 days ago

The blurb dragged me in right away and chapters 1 and 2 were great. Martin is interesting and funny, Cecil is very mysterious - I shall read on but until then, shelved with best wishes!

J&M
'Graemor'

Tolvo wrote 1078 days ago

What a fascinating start, Simon, it's got me hooked. Yes, young Martin's right. Most of us look the way and talk the way we're supposed to look like and talk like don't we - more so at funerals - good insight this sixteen year old Martin has. The Vicar droned on: 'Like an old door swinging in the wind.' Most appropriate words I thought.

I soon started to get impatient to know what Martin was up to - a very good idea for stirring up interest in the reader ... Now I know he's a Funeral Blagger; never heard of any such until I read this chapter. Now I must read on to find out how they operate (I'd like a job like that).

A most entertaining first chapter Simon. I liked it a lot and will read on. Tolvo (Frank).

PS: "Badly shaven gentleman who smelt of cheap after-shave and whiskey:" Scotsmen believe that Whiskey (being brands made outside of Scotland) is a cheap form of the real Scotch Wisky (without the 'e'). Cheers!

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