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Dr. Jason Dew aka J. Michael Dew is a Professor of English, Perimeter College, Georgia State University. He holds degrees from Lock Haven University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Georgia State University, and is the author of three novels: Gadly Plain (Cladach Publishing, 2013), Amen: A Nativity Story (Cladach Publishing, 2013), and The Land of Silence aka All the Bad Things (Main Street Rag, 2017). He is also the CEO of 48B Consulting www.48bconsulting.com Atlanta is home to him, his wife, and three daughters. “I owe it all to the men who stepped up for me; I do it all to step up for others.”
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Up on the Hill (available for acquisition)
Charlie Allen is an aging man who sweeps floors and cleans bathrooms at Cougar’s Crossing Elementary School. After work, he visits his wife, Chick, who lives in a nursing home due to the fact that she cannot be trusted. At sixty-seven, he knows the sun is beginning to set on his life, yet one morning, like any other, the green tennis ball appears at the foot of his kitchen table; a ball he has not held in over fifty years. In another time, Charlie Allen would have thrown it and his beloved dog, Molly, would have brought it back.
So begins a story that oscillates between one man’s traumatic past and a present he shares with a fifth-grade teacher who is in the midst of her own personal battle. Charlie Allen did the unthinkable when he was a boy, and the weight of that memory has been a tremendous burden on his soul. On top of all that, there is now a killer on the loose in the rustic Pennsylvania county they call home; a killer who also did the unthinkable. Only the bearded janitor with the missing tooth can initiate the events that will lead to unfortold events. Will Charlie Allen disregard the green tennis ball? Call it an odd occurrence? Dismiss it with old man fatigue? Or, will he throw it into the dark, dark night to see what happens?
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