NIGHT SURFER: A Novel Tale of Love and Destiny

by CC Crown, Zox

Overview

Finn is a hot night surfer, Thana a cool sun worshipper. They clash but click. Together, they dig into his past to find out why he was made eternal. Something wants him dead, all evolutionaries dead. An ancient scroll has the answer. What it reveals is as fantastic as it is devastating to both.

Staying young forever has its perks. It can also lead to unending loneliness. Finn Nilsson has accepted that reality. After he stopped aging nearly a century ago, he also lost the ability to exist in sunlight. Riding waves by night is his one true joy . . . until he meets a young woman who challenges his tendency to self-isolate.

Thana is Finn's polar opposite. Visits by Fu-mes offer futuristic versions of herself, life's possibilities. The most tempting is Finn. When he returns to the place of his immortal re-birth in Hawaii, she impulsively follows.

Underwater visions seem hallucinatory until they start to manifest. Once the two connect the dots of his past with her future, they learn the truth: They are magnetically linked but not in the way either could have ever predicted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798985815702
Publisher:	Leo Ram Press
Publication date:	06/01/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
File size:	417 KB

About the Author

I have always loved literature. My earliest memory is the tale of THE LITTLEST ANGEL. How I felt for this fictional being. By age ten, it was GREEN MANSIONS, by age thirteen A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Every creation in between inspired me, made me feel, made me wonder about existence. My creative side encouraged me to write. Poetry was my primary vehicle in my teens and twenties. My practical side encouraged me to earn a degree. I have several in English lit.: a BA from Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI; an MA from Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; a PhD in modern British lit. from Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL. I received awards for teaching writing and contemporary literature from both Notre Dame and FSU. Between the master's degree and doctorate, I received an EdS from Nova Univ., Ft. Lauderdale, FL. I also studied modern British poetry at Exeter College during a summer session at Oxford Univ. After a decade of managing acting talent in LA, I moved back to West Palm Beach, FL. It is now the time in my life that I choose to write fiction. I am hopeful this co-written, speculative novel will inspire, will make millennials think about their own world, about their own future.
At San Diego State University, I designed my own creativity major that fused art, photography, film and writing. I met Andy Warhol there. He gave me inspirational advice: "If you love it, do it." I live by that mantra. Interest in experimental forms led me to Eastern philosophy graduate studies at Berkeley and, later, surrealist and beat poetry as well as film at San Francisco State University. Studying with minimalist poet Robert Creeley expanded my creative range. Iconic Photographer Ed Caraeff and I teamed up to create album covers featuring large painted canvas backdrops for such acts as The Bee Gees, Leon Russell, Steely Dan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Three Dog Night, Poco, Nils Lofgren, The Guess Who, Sergio Mendez. We also designed the Bee Gee's tour jet on which I airbrushed portraits of the three brothers.In 2021, with co-creator Steve Fagrey, I made the experimental film POP UP that has now won fifteen international film festival awards as well as the esteemed 2022 Jean Luc Godard Award. That year, I also created a music video for singer Randy Berlin. It has won seven awards at the international level. I am now working on the experimental film THE FUTURE OF ART, soon to be released.

Table of Contents

Contents 

1 Every Phase of Moon

2 Learning to Cruise Mounds

3 Rider of the Night

4 Sea of Darkness

5 Dread of the Sun

6 A New State of Being

7 Ecstasy

8 Electron Donors

9 Officially Deceased

10 The Scroll

11 Thana

12 Safe Somehow

13 An Electric Flame

14 Time Is An Illusion

15 BlazingForward,RipplingBackward

16 A Fu-me in the Flesh

17 One Lone Surfer 

18 Eternal Life Wish

19 A Welcoming Tonic 

20 The Dream Stream

21 Drifting Into Darkness

22 Dragon Rose

23 The Spirit of Enlightenment

24 No One's Energy Is As Fine

25 Monumental Good Fortune

26 Two Sexy Metas

27 High Five

28 Somersaulting in Fizz

29 Hale Ono 

30 Hello, Finn

31 Or Maybe a Collision

32 Tough Love

33 Somewheahhh . . . Ovah Da Rainbow

34 Just a Loner

35 Energy Drive

36 The Bunker

37 A Poor Young Girl

38 More Primal Than Energy

39 Paradise

40 The Specter of Isolation 

41 An Odd Sort of Unity

42 Vagabond 

43 Magenta Hibiscus Breezes

44 Snafu 

45 Pandora's Bag 

46 Smoky Plumes

47 In the Shadows

48 Faith, Hope, Love 

49 The Stranger

50 The Chain of Event 

51 What Are the Odds?

52 Hahdcoah

53 Cliff House

54 Lost in Forever

55 Corpse Green

56 The Tomb Is Not Always Dark

57 Fly Mars

58 The Real Part of Reality

59 Mutant Zone 

60 Primal Sounds

61 And, Of Course, Vice Versa

62 So Trippy Li'dat

63 The Sweet Breath of Life

64 Not a Peaceful Resident 

65 Forgotten Hollows 

66 Remnants

67 A Frustrating Mindscape

68 Da Kine

69 A Blue Silence 

70 Ultra Eyes 

71 Vision Brewing 

72 Shattered Illusions 

73 Banzai Pipeline

74 Déjà Vu 

75 The Stillness of Infinity

76 Two Glints of Gold 

77 Pieces of the Puzzle

78 Cheated Death Yet Again

79 Eeriness of Midnight

80 A Petrified Slug 

81 The Stranger's Tale 

82 The Ultimate Gift

83 Obsession for a Meta-Physical

84 Between Surreal and Epic

85 No One, Everyone, The Universe 

86 Into Shifting Darkness

87 The Zone88 Against the Pressing Black

89 Like Any Other Piece of Trash

90 Riders on the Storm

91 Tangled Wilds 

92 Dust and Darkness

93 Like Shooting Asteroids

94 A Silent Confirmation

95 Creation in Reverse

96 Destiny