They come by darkness, usually in the early morning hours. Sometimes they wake you, and force you to ask if they were real. Sometimes they let you sleep, but leave you unsettled in the daylight. But they do exist, in some far-flung corner of your subconscious. Some have the simple innocence of youth, naive and idealistic. But some have forsaken that guise for a darker view. You created them, from a seed of thought. They are not like you, but they are you, the part of you that never shows in the living quarters of your existence. They are the people upstairs.
Youth is served in this all-new collection of short stories from Dave Lopardo. Enmeshed in the three main themes which comprise the title are many youngsters, alone or in groups, struggling to find their way in a world that is sometimes as confusing as it is hostile. As with many of Lopardo’s previous tales, the endings are sometimes both jarring and unexpected.
Scarecrows And Sentinels is a unique blend of Dave Lopardo’s remaining stories from the 1990’s and new material, written after a fourteen year period of inactivity. As always, an uneasy undercurrent shares space with a reassuring hope. The fantasy/reality of dreamscape once again takes center stage in this thought-provoking array of short fiction.
Written between 1993–1996, Cobwebs is the second collection of short stories from Dave Lopardo. As with his first collection, The People Upstairs, many of the strange and sometimes disturbing characters are leftover dream fragments that would not recede into the corners of an overactive imagination.
Sundown Serenade is a look back at the author's past, as well as stories of mystery, crime, the bizarre and unexplained occurrences that sometimes defy what we have come to accept as the way the world works.
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