BOOK: WHEN SHADOWS DREAM - TWILIGHT

Twelve stories of faith, hope, and absurdity.

Braxton's lonely days came to end at the annual jazz festival when he met Jenneen—dark hair with blonde highlights, radiant skin, a bold confidence, and those two beautiful heads. As Braxton falls for the most unusual woman he's ever known, he must find a way to maintain his affection, while accepting a horrible sacrifice of love.

Charles Fargo's desperation for significance leads him on an adventure of faith with devastating consequences for his hometown. Caught between the desire to do great things, and his mediocre existence, Charles takes on a simple task—moving a mountain.

Bill Harmond was the perfect employee, and prospective mate, the man all the women at the office wanted—handsome and hard working, a creative thinker with an edge, kind, generous to a fault, a man of impeccable integrity, and the best serial killer the company ever had.

Volume One of When Shadows Dream: Twilight, journeys through 12 stories where the impossible, improbable, and unthinkable are common day occurrences sparking uncommon reflections.

Read what others are saying about When Shadows Dream: Twilight:

• "Tom Terry's new book is a delightful Serling-esque jaunt into a more spiritually and culturally aware Twilight Zone. Full of delightful and unexpected twists, this anthology reinvents the science fiction short story genre. WSD:T is a great example of how Christians should "do the literary arts" in the 21st century."


• "Terry takes you on a roller coaster ride with stories that start in the surreal. Some stories are light hearted, others pack a punch, all will make you think."


• "Pick up a copy of Tom Terry's short stories and expect to be transported. Whether set in a distant land or in seemingly familiar surroundings, these stories carry the reader on a journey with an understanding of both the light of grace and the darkness that resides in the human heart. Good, thought-provoking reading. Highly recommended."


• "The short story genre is not something you see much these days. Tom Terry has used the short story form to offer faith moving stories that energize the reader."

More About WSD:T
Terry's first published work of short stories combines an unusual mix of science fiction and light fantasy in a Christian values genre. When Shadows Dream uses allegory and alternate realities to present values concepts common among Evangelicals.

The stories presented in the collection often take sharp, disturbing turns not normally found in modern religious fiction. Ordinary tells the story of a missionary who struggles with a decision to leave a man to be eaten by a lion. Canvas and Flesh is a brutal tale of abuse and art suffered in an Arabic prison. Murder One, set in an alternate reality, takes place in corporate offices where one may order a murder by phone as easily as calling for a pizza.

Terry often sets his short stories among familiar surroundings in cities and countries where he has lived, creating alternate realities around usually nondescript locations.

The second book in the series, When Shadows Dream: Midnight, is slated for a 2008 release.

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