Visitors at Grouse Creek is a coming of age story, following 14-year old Ben as he copes with the aftermath of seeing three silvery beings while fishing at a creek one hot summer night. Ben's adventures of proving the beings were from another planet are told as a story he would have related to a son he never had. Follow his youthful efforts at complex research, helped by a mysterious professor. Feel his frustration when he misses several more encounters with the beings. As he suffers the derision of his little brother who calls the beings - the vapors. And as friends mercilessly make fun of him. All comes to a head when his brother nearly drowns in the creek. Was it angels who saved him? Or the aliens? Visitors at Grouse Creek reveals how a teenage boy is affected forever by a strange, traumatic incident. How reactions of family and friends complicate everything. How his own stubborn imagination propel him. Listen to Ben's story and feel his passion and angst. Hear his story of missed opportunities. Chance meetings. Sense the bitterness of failure. "Look at me son, See the lines here and here! Run your finger along my brow. Feel the sadness? Feel the humiliation? It's been there since that summer. It's there today. It'll be there tomorrow."
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