Kirjahaku

30 Short stories by author Lawrence Heibel. The stories range from dramatic to comedy, supernatural/horror to fantasy and science fiction. Also included are 5 early stories from his elementary school days--five horror stories that are comical to read but show the starts of a budding writer at an early age.

Ray Mondy dies as plans to kill his wife Pam for leaving him for another man go horribly wrong. Five years later, he finds a way to return to the living world by possessing live souls thanks to a young medium, Steve Thorndyke, who unwittingly brings Ray back from the dead. Ray seeks vengeance against his former wife, now married to Ron Candleson. While the Candlesons reunite with two teenage children that Ron left behind when he ran away with Pam, Ray torments them in the idyllic forested Bay Haven State Park on Lake Michigan. Steve Thorndyke, the only one who knows the truth about Ray stalks Candlesons and Mondy hoping to stop Ray's terrifying plans of vengeance.

Ron Candleson helps Pam Mondy leave her abusive husband Ray Mondy. Ray dies in an attempt to kill them. Five years later, Steve Thorndyke, a 21-year-old medium helps his boyhood friend's soul cross over from the Void between life and death to the Light On his way back to his body, Steve is possessed by Ray Mondy's soul. Ray hijacks another body and disappears with thoughts of killing Ron and Pam. Now, Ron and Pam Candleson, married and living in California for the past five years, return to Michigan for a reunion with Ron's teenage son and daughter. Camping at Bay Haven State Park, Ray Mondy has a reunion of his own as he seeks vengeance against the Candlesons. Hampering that reunion is Steve Thorndyke who wants to return Ray to the Void before he can harm the Candlesons. As the reunion unfolds, Ron and Pam are estranged by Ron's lack of attention to his marriage. At the same time a handsome stranger ignites a fantasy that Pam struggles to keep a fantasy and not a reality.

This collection of short stories takes a look at communication between others and ourself. Themes are internal struggles, divorce, not listening, the downside to being stubborn, death, child-rearing and many other instances where we are succeeding or failing to communicate and the effect that has on our lives.

An exploration of how we communicate with ourselves and others. Themes include identity crisis, the tragedy of not listening to each other, the source of happiness, holding onto a terrible secret and many more stories of listening and not listening and how it affects our lives.