Love Letters

Starla has been mysteriously missing since the birth of her daughter, Genevieve, but a series of cryptic letters from her has led the crestfallen but unbroken Ckol to the seemingly fruitless errand of reuniting their imperfect family. And the latest letter has inadvertently delivered Ckol to a chance face to face with the wizened visage of mortality—manifested in the failed suicide of a resigned widow—testing the tensile bounds of his mercy, expediency and, eventually, his own mortality. The corollaries of his choices reveal themselves in the crazed, dubious recapitulations of fantastical and sanguinary episodes seemingly dreamt up by an addled mind saddled by sadness and madness and erumpent erudition.

Now lend an ear as former professor Ckol recounts the events of a life led by his own vices to professional disgrace, enchanted fatherhood and unrequited love. Nearing many ends, Ckol remains throughout a man madly driven by personal obsession, namely Starla—absent mother of his beloved child, Genevieve—and, perhaps firstly, the Written Word. Erudite yet playful, Ludditic but experimental, he invites the reader on a voyeuristic voyage navigating carefully a precarious raft of truth among a scattered mélange of literary device, liberally employing alliteration, allusions, wordplay and ambiguous passages that take on new meaning as certain levels of understanding are reached by the reader. Love Letters will both challenge and delight the conscientious reader willing to wade slowly through the wreckage, unafraid to stop, to look back and study the unexpected shapes meticulously assembled of the seemingly disparate elements drifting in the nebulous deluge of his chimerical narration.