F.E. Feeley is here today to promote his new paranormal mystery with a touching message on remaining steadfast even when facing a monolith.
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Regaining hope
During these moments of uncertainty, I look back into humanity’s shared history. People who survived during incredible moments. From 9/11, through the Holocaust, The French Revolution, to The Civil War and Slavery. There – always constant – maybe not always visible – hope cast its spindly threads and kept people alive.
And it’s during these great and terrible moments in humanity’s existence that a great leap forward happens either in technology or social awareness.
It’s sort of a like a mother giving birth. Through the pain, through the stretch marks, and the flirtation with death to deliver the child – the pain gives way to her hope that is placed in the squalling baby who now rests against her breast.
Sometimes those that are burdened with the pain of reality become the strongest defenders of their own hope, tried by fire, and rise to the occasion.
And then sometimes we fall.
We human beings tend to be myopic. We’re nearsighted. We only see things in relation to what and who surrounds us.
It’s hard to take a step back and see a broader picture unraveling around us.
When 15 terrorists turned airplanes into rockets and plunged them into the heart of our democracy – it was upward toward two burning towers we looked and kept our eyes. And underneath our gaze, firefighters and police officers – our hope- rushed toward their end. But now, when you see a fire truck I imagine somewhere in your brain you think back and understand who and what they are.
Hope. Constant. Strong. Hope.
Today is no different. Darkness seems to have won. But darkness itself is not a thing. It’s a lack of a thing – sort of like a hole in a shirt.
And when the light comes on, darkness is dissolved.
When you hear the worst things that can be said about humanity – remember the speaker isn’t speaking something containing a thing. Their words are harsh because they LACK a thing. Education, compassion, empathy….and a void is easily filled and often filled with fear.
Think of the fundamentalist be they an evangelical, Islamic, Judaic, or atheistic. Crazy isn’t relegated to the religious. Absolutism is a human characteristic.
They don’t have the most faith or the most truth, though they claim they do, they – in fact, they have the least. They’re loud, frantic, sometimes dangerous.
Because they’re empty and they have no hope.
The words, “I don’t know” are dangerous to them.
So, they try and take your hope away in myriad ways.
But hope slips passed and right through them. And should they even take a life – or several – hope solidifies around those left behind and all they’ve done is transfer that hope that existed once in someone to them.
And hope becomes stronger.
So, I can’t tell you how to regain hope. I can’t give you something you already have.
I can only point out to you that it still resides in you and those around you if you step back and look at the broader work being constructed around you.
In these days of uncertainty there seems to be so much anger in the air that one can cut it with a knife.
My hope has slipped like a transmission searching to cling onto its next gear in the past several months.
Things feel rough.
So, I crawl back into my mind.
I turn on the radio and sing.
I find a moment to take a breath.
I go and visit those I love whether in real life or in cyberspace.
And its then that I remember what hope, is. That slipped gear finds it’s spot and pushes me forward. Ever onward.
To me, hope is the first to come to the party and last to leave.
It’s a constant in our universe, and when times are good, hope is bountiful.
And when things are bad, hope is pulled taut and becomes steel hard and the one thing that holds us onto life.
Hang tight, baby. Hope is here. It always has been.
Memoirs of the Human Wraiths
While recovering from the recent loss of his parents, Daniel Donnelly receives a phone call from his estranged aunt, who turns over control of the family fortune and estate, Timber Manor. Though his father had seemed guarded about the past, Daniel’s curiosity and need for family compel him to visit.
Located in a secluded area of the Northwest, Timber Manor has grown silent over the years. Her halls sit empty and a thin layer of dust adorns the sheet-covered furniture. When Daniel arrives to begin repairs, strange things happen. Nightmares haunt his dreams. Memories not his own disturb his waking hours. Alive with the tragedies of the past, Timber Manor threatens to tear Daniel apart.
Sheriff Hale Davis grew up working on the manor grounds. Seeing Daniel struggle, he vows to protect the young man who has captured his heart, and help him solve the mystery behind the haunting and confront the past—not only to save Daniel’s life, but to save his family, whose very souls hang in the balance.
First Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, 2012.
Cover Artist: Paul Richmond
Series Memoirs of the Human Wraiths
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About the Author:
Hello there, I am F.E. Feeley Jr, author of The Haunting of Timber Manor and Objects in the Rearview Mirror. Thank you for coming to view my page. I was born and raised in the city of Detroit where I graduated from high school. Afterward, I joined the military and now am a published author here at Dreamspinner Press. Married to the love of my life (John) who lets me write horror novels. I write about ghosts and things that go bump in the night. Well, the other things that go bump in the night. So, if you're not too scared of the dark, check out my books, I'm sure you'll like 'em.
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