LIGHT FROM DISTANT STARS
by
SHAWN SMUCKER
Genre: Christian Fiction / Magical Realism / Rural Fiction
Publisher: Revell
Date of Publication: July 16, 2019
Number of Pages: 400
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Over the next week, Cohen's childhood comes back in living color. The dramatic events that led to his parents' separation. The accident Cohen witnessed and the traumatic images he couldn't unsee. And the two children in the forest who became his friends--and enlisted him in a dark and dangerous undertaking. As the lines blur between what was real and what was imaginary, Cohen is faced with the question he's been avoiding:
Is he responsible for his father's death?
Master story weaver Shawn Smucker relays a tale both eerie and enchanting, one that will have you questioning reality and reaching out for what is true, good, and genuine.
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Chapter One of
Light from Distant Stars
By Shawn Smucker
PART
ONE
Monday,
March 16, 2015
Darkness
was upon the face of the deep.
Genesis
1:2
one
The
Body
Cohen Marah clears his
throat quietly, more out of discomfort than the presence of any particular
thing that needs clearing, and attempts to step over the body for a second
time. His heel no more than lightens its weight on the earth before he puts his
foot back down and sighs. He tilts his head and purses his lips, as if
preparing to give a talk to an unruly child. He does not take his hands out of
his pockets, worried that he will taint the scene, which in the next moment he
realizes is ridiculous. This is where he works. This is where he works with his
father, Calvin. His fingerprints are everywhere.
He
stares down at the body again, and sadness keeps him leaning to one side. It’s
the physical weight of emotion, and that weight is not centered inside of him
but skewed, imbalanced. It is not his father’s slightly opened eyes looking up
at him from the floor that bring down the heaviness, and it is not his father’s
cleanly shaven cheeks, haggard and old. It is not the way the tangled arms rest
on his chest, or the way his one leg is still bent and propped up against the
examination table.
No,
the thing that weighs Cohen down is the shiny baldness of his father’s head,
the way the light reflects from it the same way it did when he was alive. The
light should dim, he thinks. It should flatten out, and the glare should fade.
There should be no light, not anymore.
Shawn Smucker is the author of the young adult novels The Day the Angels Fell and The Edge of Over There, as well as the memoir Once We Were Strangers. He lives with his wife and six children in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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