The Dreamers

By Jack Bray

“THE DREAMERS”
It has happened to all of us. We see someone who looks familiar and it drives us crazy trying to remember where we had met them or who they were. Often they resemble celebrities or someone we knew well. What if these ‘look-alikes’ were actually the person we thought they were, but we were certain had died? What if everything around us, the world we live in, were all in our mind and we were experiencing it after we had died and everyone who looks familiar to us is also dead and we are in their minds?

And we didn’t know it.

In a little town in north Alabama, in a house built in the 1600s, a belief that we do indeed come back from the dead and experience another “life” remains as strong as it was when the German founders brought it to America. A small group of people who shared the burden of dreaming of their deaths gather to discuss their experiences. Calling themselves “ Dreamers” because they all have dreamed they already died, they are suddenly visited by someone who not only validates their feelings but startles them with even further news.

“Dreamers” is the sequel to “Grove House” where it all began. It will leave the reader wondering whether everything described in these few pages is possible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jack Bray
• Release date: Feb 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310759352

Jack Bray

After college, Jack had a successful thirty year career in broadcast television sales in New York City where he was born and raised, retiring as President of Blairsat, a satellite company he founded. His retirement years were spent as stock broker, teacher, publisher, lay minister and for the last 20 years, freelance writer.While living in Florida, feeling the need to respond to criticism of Catholicism, he began writing letters to the editor that led to column writing and web postings. After moving to Cullman, Alabama, his current home, he published his first book, a collection of those writings, "When My Catholic Buttons Were Pushed". That was followed by his debut novel, "The Good Sheep", a story of temptation suffered by a young man seeking the priesthood. The sequel, "Immortal Enemy", is a tale of the devil following that young man in his first year as a priest.His first novel of commercial fiction, "Grove House", is the story of a man who experiences the onset of dementia complicating his dealing with multiple suicides while living in a retirement home. His estranged daughter reunites and uncovers the mystery behind the suicides.He has just published “The Dreamers”, a short story sequel to “Grove House”.

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