The people he finds there are pleasant, but a little bit peculiar. He befriends a reticent doctor and his wife, who is struggling with dementia, and Margery, who regularly leaps from a cliff in death-defying bungee jumps.
Why, he wonders, do the otherwise healthy and upbeat townspeople seem to be disappearing?
Jeffrey Penn May has won several fiction awards, including one from Writer’s Digest. He has received a Pushcart nomination and was a Landmark Prize finalist. Jeff wrote and performed a story for Washington University Radio and was a consultant to a St. Louis theater company.
Among other occupations, Jeff has been a waiter, hotel security officer, credit manager, deckhand, technical data engineer, and creative writing teacher. Jeff’s adventures include floating a home-built raft from St. Louis to Memphis, navigating a John boat to New Orleans, digging for Pre-Columbian artifacts, and climbing mountains from Alaska to South America.