All Things Weird: The Jar of Pandora (Welcome to Brookville)

by Michael Field

Overview

It's late. Duncan Carver walks the grounds of the local cemetery in search of an alleged grave-robbing creature. Suddenly, a yellowish gas engulfs the cemetery. Duncan chokes on the chemical cloud before being pulled to safety by Amanda Copeland. Amanda is a journalist with the Brookville Gazette, investigating the illegal venting of experimental gaseous chemicals around the town by Epsen Pharmaceuticals. She is a realist. Duncan is a dreamer. Instantly, they argue.

The next day, Duncan recovers and heads straight for All Things Weird, a local shop that deals in mysterious items and carries an overall knowledge of all things Brookville. Duncan again begs Grady Olsen, proprietor and Brookville expert, for a job. Olsen relents. As Duncan leaves the shop and runs into Amanda. Immediately, they argue about their nighttime encounter. Duncan tells her off and escapes to a local café.

Olsen is visited by a familiar face. His ex-wife, Evelyn Godfrey, arrives with dire news. Deacon, their son is on his way to Brookville in search of a secret power they've protected for years. She relays the story of the library and the discovery a mutual friend in New York City who was unable to conceal the location of the item from Deacon. Brookville.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165895869
Publisher:	Michael Field
Publication date:	07/16/2022
Series:	Welcome to Brookville
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	182 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

I directed a feature I penned in 2005 titled, "Save the Forest", which enjoyed a small run on Netflix as well as being released internationally through Echelon Entertainment. I created the short film, "The Hero", which was a finalist for TriggerStreet.com's annual festival in 2005. and developed two successful web series, The Puzzle Maker's Son and Scenes from the Movies From there, I published my two novels Adam Parker and the Radioactive Scout and Adam Parker and the High School Bully. In 2015, my script Kiddo was a quarterfinalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and in 2017, I was nominated for a Writer's Guild Award for Outstanding Writing in New Media for my short Life Ends @ 30. Recently, I've published a novella, Paradoxed, and a YA-Adventure novella called All Things Weird: The Jar of Pandora.

I also have a short film, that I wrote and directed, on the festival circuit, Noppera-bō

You can find me here: michaeldfield.com and Forgotten Cinema Podcast.