Frank Arcilesi has a degree in Mass Communications; and Mathematics from Towson State University in Maryland. He has written numerous stories, and articles on collecting, travel and other topics, and has financial and business experience.
By Toni Hull of Epic Book Promotions:
Frank Arcilesi has recently authored Everyday a Bird Learns How to Fly.
Montgomery Village, Maryland is an area of rolling green hills, beautiful parks and cherry blossoms. Dubbed 'The Best Hometown in Maryland', Montgomery Village is a short train ride from Washington DC, and less than an hour's drive from Baltimore. Along with 40,000 other people, Frank Arcilesi calls Montgomery Village his home.
The air was crisp and the sky was bright the October morning that I asked Mr. Arcilesi to fill me in on his novel Every Day a Bird Learns How to Fly, and his life in general.
"I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland with my mom, dad and older brother. The city had a special charm with its small ethnic neighborhoods and friendly people. Of course there were the Orioles and Baltimore Colts, until they (Colts) were unceremoniously hijacked at midnight by the Mayflower vans. Johnny Unitas and Brooks and Frank Robinson were my heroes.
When I was a kid my mom worked as a buttonhole maker in a custom suit factory and my dad pressed garments. These were tedious un-fun jobs but they kept food on the table for my brother and me. School was a little out of the ordinary. My high school was all male and we had to rent female cheerleaders from other schools for our football games. We never knew if they were really cheering for our team or the opposition." Today the cheerleaders are more honest in their enthusiasm since the school is now coed. Later I attended college just eight miles north of Baltimore at Towson State University. That is where I studied mass communications and mathematics. I'll let you decide which one I found boring."
"How about favorite places?"
"Antiques shops are fascinating and I will stop at any new one I discover. I also love to drive through the countryside of Pennsylvania during the fall. In the summer though, my favorite spot is the resort town of Ocean City, Maryland, with its sandy beach and long, long boardwalk stretching past the many souvenir shops and food stands. I also like to search the small resort town for new restaurants specializing in fine seafood. There are some excellent ones which I discovere...
A collection of eight supernatural stories.
A novella, a novelette, and six Sci Fi short stories about, alien contact, a police ghost informant, Bigfoot, a strange execution, a Beagle that dabbles in psychiatry, a peculiar flower ritual, a mysterious lady who likes kites, and a bonus political humor story.
The Search for Amanda
--An UNUSUAL UFO time travel story as Brad finally gets to meet his obsession, Amanda, and that's not easy since he's in the 21st century and she's in the 20th century. As an experiment to observe human behavior, the gray alien commander of UFO offers his craft's time travel capabilities to propel Brad Anderson back to the 1950s to meet his obsession--a girl in a picture on his grandmother's wall that is over 50 years old. It's an offer that Brad just can't refuse.
Ghost Informant
--In this UNUSUAL story, a policeman discovers a strange informant and sets out to solve a murder that hasn't even been reported. The paranormal world and a by-the-book policeman come together as a recently murdered girl's apparition reaches out to him in a plea to find her body. "Find me," she whispered out of thin air from the back seat of his car--but she wasn't really there when he turned around.
Bigfoot and the Boundary:
--Mark did not expect to be in hand to hand combat with this creature which was not supposed to exist but that's what he would end up doing. That was the bargain he had made to himself for what the beast had done to Brenda months earlier on their fateful trip to the secluded cabin.
Meeting Bigfoot:
--Jack Santone had retired from the Seattle Police Force a year earlier and moved near the Gifford National forest for a blissful retirement full of endless fishing and camping excursions. But today he had not planned to be in hand to hand combat with a creature his friend Norm insisted did not exist.
Sydney, the Beagle is My Analyst:
--Martin wasn't sure about his new analyst. Martin Fenton finally decided to seek help for his problem. His problem had cost him his wife and job, and turned him into a buffoon-like figure to others. Now as he sat on the couch in his psychiatrist's office, he wondered if he was going to get the help he sought from his analyst who sat poised in a chair across from him--an insightful beagle.
The Ghostly Kite:
--It will be a trip and a pretty lady he will not soon forget. When a CPA takes a weekend vacation trip to Ocean City, Maryland, he finds himself returning a stray kite to a somewhat sad, beautiful mysterious lady in the apartment above him. He soon becomes attracted to her and she leads him on a journey back to her past.
Execute Him in the 13th Hour:
--It was the 13th month and 13th day of Jake Bradley's stay on death row. Now in the 13th hour, Jake was moving closer to his date with Ol' Sparky. Ten years earlier Jake had put an abrupt end to the young Latin lover of his pretty wife. It was Jake's own justice meted out without emotion with his own hands around the Latino's neck, snuffing out his cheating ways.
The judge had sentenced Jake to death but there had been no remorseful statements emanating from Jake. Even Jake's occasional visitor over the years, Father Johnson, a poor excuse for a man of the cloth, had never heard any remorseful utterings from Jake.
But in the final hour, the priest would make one more attempt to get Jake to admit his failings and thus give the priest another inmate he could add to his list of saved souls to impress the Bishop with. But the final visit would not quite turn out the way the priest had hoped.
The Haunted Yellow Rose:
--A teenager goes to his favorite spot, a picnic table under a willow tree in his backyard, to be alone for a bit. He encounters a neighbor, a young woman with auburn hair, at the neighboring residence whom he had never seen before. He discovers the mysterious lady has a penchant for yellow ro...
Título : Strange Sci-Fi Stories
EAN : 9781005302344
Editorial : Frank Arcilesi
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