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    Elliot Savant
    Elliot Savant
    Elliot Savant
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    Elliot Savant

    By Orrin Jason Bradford

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    A thirteen-year-old boy with a vivid imagination in a mountain town known for the bizarre. 

    A formula for a suspenseful tale with a twist.

    Thirteen-year-old Dodger Dean has a vivid imagination that tends to get him in trouble at times — as in six or seven times a day. So much so that his mother has to beg Uncle Matt to take Dodger for a couple months each summer so she can recover a shred of sanity. But Foster Flat, where Uncle Matt lives, has its own unique characteristics that make for a dangerous combination for a boy like Dodger, who sometimes crosses the line with his imaginative stories of adventure and intrigue. 

    If you’re a fan of such stories as appeared on The Twilight Zone and those told by writers like Ray Bradbury and Neil Gaiman, you’ll feel right at home in Foster Flat as you journey into the world of a thirteen-year-old with an imagination that often clashes with the real world.

    Pick up this free short story excerpted from Fantastic Fables of Foster Flat today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPorpoise Publishing
    Release dateOct 28, 2015
    ISBN9781519931481
    Elliot Savant
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    Orrin Jason Bradford

    Orrin Jason Bradford is the pen name W. Bradford Swift uses for his adult fiction to distinguish it from his nonfiction and young adult novels. An avid reader from childhood, he continues to read and study science fiction and fantasy. As a young man, he promised one day to write his own fiction in gratitude to the many authors who kept him entertained and more or less sane over the years.  Swift is best known for his visionary fiction and nonfiction that “entertain while also enlightening and encouraging the reader to expand their sense of what is possible, and then applying that expanded awareness to their life.” He is a graduate of Clarion West in Seattle, WA – a residential workshop for writers of science fiction and fantasy. He lives in the “paradise found” of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with his wife, Ann, their daughter, Amber and a menagerie of four-legged family members. His other speculative fiction includes the six-book mega-series, Saga of the Dandelion Expansion which includes the FreeForm trilogy and the Kindred trilogy, Babble, Fantastic Fables of Foster Flat, and others.

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      Elliot Savant - Orrin Jason Bradford

      ELLIOT SAVANT

      A Free Fantastic Fable of

      Foster Flat Digital Short

      Orrin Jason Bradford

      Www.wbradfordswift.com/fffables

      Elliot Savant

      A strong belief among many of the founding residents of Foster Flat is that the magical powers from Foster’s collection are heightened by a special ley line that runs through the center of town before continuing to Asheville and beyond. This same ley line is reported to run through Mt. Mitchell north of Foster Flat. Mt. Mitchell is not only known for being the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains, many feel that a trek up to its summit is a great way to awaken one's soul consciousness.

      Of course, I don’t know if any of this is true or not. I’m just reporting a few tidbits of what I’ve heard all my life growing up in this small town. I do know that when you combine the reported magical powers, the spiritual ley lines of the area, and the imagination of a young boy…well, it’s the making of an interesting story; like the one that follows.

      Mimi Rawlins

      Roving Reporter for The Global Inquiry

      Born and raised in Foster Flat, North Carolina

      Dodger weaved his way through the cluster of automobiles lining the front of the strip shops, sliding his skateboard expertly in and out with easy grace. His eyes, half closed behind the mirrored sunglasses, saw each hunk of metal not as dusty, salt-encrusted road machines but as sculptured monoliths of an alien civilization placed in his path as an impediment to his final destination. His destination was not the neighborhood Vantage Drug Store as an innocent bystander might think but the lair of Dodger's arch villain, the Grand Torturer himself -- Clevis the Clever.

      Dodger cut in tightly on the last barrier, an ancient black Cadillac with more years on its frame than Dodger had on his thirteen-year-old body. He was just rounding the left rear fin, having weaved out wide to avoid the Caddy's trailer hitch when something from inside smacked the rear window. The impact was with such force that Dodger veered sharply away to miss the shards of glass he expected to come raining down on him.

      What the . . . He muttered as he regained his balance. He paused a moment to catch his breath before pushing himself back towards the ancient auto. As he approached the Cadillac, he noticed the out of state plates -- Illinois. Dodger hadn't paid much attention in geography class but knew Illinois was a long cry from the quiet mountain village of Foster Flat, North Carolina where his mother had imprisoned him for the summer -- again -- with Uncle Matt. He still remembered her conversation

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