Erased

If all the world’s a stage, it would appear that my part has been written out. I am no longer a player—my entrance forgotten, my exit seemingly absolute—and the final curtain now stands poised, eager to drop with nothing more than my own sanity to prevent its release.

Let me say right now that this is not amnesia. I have memory, full and clear. The road taken; the journey made; my footprints still hollowed in the sand. Clear images that even now as I recall them are slowly being swept away by an invisible surf. Am I really who I think I am?

Am I really?

“Yes!” With every ounce of strength I shout, “Yes!” But for how much longer? How much longer can I hover above my own identity, worn and wondering? How much longer can my fractured thoughts and beliefs stand alone while my splintered, probing fingers reach out into the emptiness?

I must make a choice: reclamation or transformation. In the alluring eyes of the former, I see hope and vindication; in the dark gaze of the latter, isolation and potential madness.

What if I am not who I think I am?

What if…I am not?

“I believe my name is Daniel Rayne,” I said to the young woman standing before me.

“You believe?” she asked, her face twisting with tickled bewilderment. She nodded as though she understood and sat down at the table across from me, a bowl of hot bean soup erecting a wall of steam between us. She didn’t know it, but I had been watching her since I’d walked into the place, fluttering like an exotic butterfly from table to table, salting each man’s meal with a smile and a chat. She was too young to be in this place, too beautiful, I thought, but then I didn’t think that I belonged there either. Not in a homeless shelter that reeked of rotting pride and overcooked bean soup.

“I pretty much held my breath through the last fifty or sixty pages, as the suspense came to its climatic ending…this book is crazy. It’s wholly original, and entertaining. If you like suspense, murder, who done it sort of books, you won’t be disappointed by this one.”
Book of the Moment – MySpace Reviewer

“I just finished Erased and all I can say is: IT WAS FANTASTIC!!!!!!!! I really enjoyed it.”
Jennifer, PA

“A riveting plot filled with action and suspense…a scary concept, losing your identity.”
Mark, Syracuse

“I started it after I got to the beach, and became so engrossed I burnt the hell out of my chest and back. I still finished it, after I rubbed on some aloe that is.”
Nate, NY

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