There's Gold In Those Hills

By Eric Johnson

This is a collection of stories featuring broken characters. Some whohave time for redemption, and others who aren't so lucky.In There's Gold In Those Hills, Robert Lindsday, Vietnam veteran trying to adjust tolife back home, while being haunted by the memories of war.Moonlight Motel features a prostitute and a farm hand spending an hour in a motel room,where dreams and thoughts of heading west seem within reach. But maybe there's more toJohnny and Mona than meets the eye.A Real Stand-Up Guy finds our unnamed character waking up in an old barn, trying to piecetogether how he got there, and who sold him out.In Christmas Eve, a small town offers not much for retribution. A gambling man with a debt hecan't pay, eyeing the train tracks for a swift exit, and an old cabbie haunted by the guilt of hisdead son.Sunday Philosopher deals with a complicated relationship between father and daughter, wherelife never turned out the way they'd hoped, except for hikes up a lonely mountain on Sundays.Death is closing in, in The Mystery Revealed, where a young man floats outside of his bodyand relives the moments of his life that he led to his untimely end.The House Where the King Hangs From a Tree finds our scatterbrained narrator, discussingthe arrest of his neighbor.Rain falls hard as a broken man searches for alleyway cures in Meeting the Medicine ManSomething Devoid of Humanity sees a broken cop spending his evenings at a cafe thinkingabout his family, and hating the secrets of this small town. When he finds out about a troubledman named Samuel Myers and the secrets hidden in the basement of a small church.A teenage kid and a record shop controlled by the mafia following the NYC blackout of 77. Whatcould go wrong in Exile Records?A Canadian and an American preacher from Baton Rouge, discuss morality, truth and God asthey sit in a foxhole during the Vietnam war, in Maybe It's Time to Start Praying

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CRVM292T
• ISBN13: 9798987272398
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Ibis Publishing LLC
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"