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    Fear of Rain
    Fear of Rain
    Fear of Rain
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    Fear of Rain

    By Robert Jeschonek

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    Thanks to the sorcerous Mr. Flood, Johnstown, Pennsylvania has drowned three times...and the fourth time will be the charm. By the time he gets done flooding Johnstown, the city will vanish beneath the waves forever...unless his flood-making apprentice, Dee, has anything to say about it. Refusing to let the fourth flood sink Johnstown, young Dee uses her own powers against her wicked mentor, setting off a battle of magic rainmakers in the heart of the raging storm. Will thousands of people drown in the ultimate deluge? Will madness and destruction doom Johnstown to an eternal watery grave? Or will hope and heart turn back the tide of history, striking a blow against darkness and disaster? Who'll stop the rain? No one, if Mr. Flood gets his way. This fantasy masterpiece made waves around the world, winning a British Fantasy Award nomination and taking Russia by storm. Don't miss this exciting tale by award-winning storyteller Robert Jeschonek, a master of unique and unexpected fantasy that really packs a punch.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jeschonek
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781386909897
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      Book preview

      Fear of Rain - Robert Jeschonek

      Fear of Rain

      FEAR OF RAIN

      A JOHNSTOWN TALE

      ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Pie Press

      CONTENTS

      Also by Robert Jeschonek

      Fear of Rain

      About the Author

      Special Preview: The Masked Family

      FEAR OF RAIN

      Copyright © 2023 by Robert Jeschonek

      http://bobscribe.com/

      Cover Art Copyright © 2023 by David Kendall

      This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved by the author.

      A Pie Press book

      Pie Press Logo

      Published by Pie Press Publishing

      411 Chancellor Street

      Johnstown, Pennsylvania 15904

      www.piepresspublishing.com

      ALSO BY ROBERT JESCHONEK

      Crimes in the Key of Murder

      Death by Polka

      Six Crime Stories Volume One

      The First Detect-Eve

      The Masked Family

      The Other Waiter

      Who Unkilled Johnny Murder?

      FEAR OF RAIN

      Mr. Flood bangs his fork on the side of his plate, and thunder rumbles outside the restaurant.  He winks one watery, sky blue eye at me and peels back his smooth, white lips in a dirty joke smile.

      Won’t be long now, he says, his voice a gravelly tenor.  Not long till my retirement party.

      If you didn’t know better, to look at him, you’d think he was just another little old man hobbling around downtown Johnstown, Pennsylvania.  Just another Central Park bench sitting, Social Security check cashing, prescription picking up, stumbling on the curbs, taking too long to cross Main Street old timer.  You’d never know the kind of power that boils inside him.

      Maybe you’d see him bang his fork on the plate a second time, and you’d hear the thunder, louder than before, but you wouldn’t connect the two.  You wouldn’t realize that he’d made it happen. You wouldn’t know what he was about to do next.

      But I know.  I know all about what’s coming.

      It’s the Big Night.  He’s wearing his lucky suit for the occasion--a powder blue leisure suit from the ‘70’s with white piping around the collar, lapels, and pockets.

      He’s the closest thing I have to a father, and I’m part of this, too.  Tonight’s his retirement party and my graduation party wrapped up in one...though the people of Johnstown will call it something different altogether.

      The ones who survive, anyway.

      I just hope I’m ready, I say, picking at the gray, gravy-drowned meat loaf on my own cracked plate.  Mr. Flood has wolfed down his turkey dinner like a teenage football star and chased it with a double slice of graham cracker pie, but I’m way too nervous tonight to be hungry.

      You’re more ready than I was in ’36, Dee, says Mr. Flood, wagging his chicken hawk head on a neck so wishbone scrawny it looks like it ought to snap in two any second now.  I wasn’t nearly as good a student as you, and look how that turned out! Seventeen feet of water!

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