Beyond the Silver Lining of Reality

By Anthony Wray

DISTANT FANTASY: WELCOME TO CHERIONGOSKI - PART 1
Upon returning home for council to understand a repetitious dream of a woman attempting contact from a futuristic society, John Maroney discovers his childhood diary suggests other motives are at play.

CADILLAC NIGHTMARES
Jack's obsession with Glenda excites his desires yet haunts his nightmares in a twisted infatuation of love.

HUDSON'S DREAM
Ben long to inherit the family business but a web of depression lingers in the shadows.

FOUR MINUTES MORE
Four minutes of beautiful turmoil are missed on a Sunday morning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthony Wray
• Release date: Nov 18, 2016

Anthony Wray

Anthony Wray currently works as a quality assurance tester while working on his first novel. Anthony spent his first twenty-two years of life in the northeast corner of Indiana before joining the U.S. Army in 2006. During his service in the armed forced, Anthony traveled the world studying cultures and the immense diversity and history that came with each. After his service he settled down with his wife, who was also a member of the U.S. Army, he began to contemplate what he wanted to do. Bouncing from job to job and never feeling satisfied, Anthony sat down and returned to writing as an outlet for his feelings. This ultimately drove him to pursue and education in creative writing. Anthony and his wife now reside in the Seattle Metropolitan Area with their three companions, two dogs and a cat.

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Beyond the Silver Lining of Reality

A Collection of Tales by

Anthony Wray

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Distant Fantasy: Welcome to Cheriongoski - Part 1

Chapter 1: Cheriongoski

Chapter 2: The Robot King

Chapter 3: The Transformation

Glowing Categories

Chapter 4: The Ceremony

Cadillac Nightmares

Hudson's Dream

Four Minutes More

About the Author

Distant Fantasy: Welcome to Cheriongoski - Part 1

Chapter 1: Cheriongoski

Standing in absolute disbelief, unsure of the vast creation that fills his sight to its far reaches, John is unable to fathom the absolute magnetism of the city. It's nothing that mimicks anywhere he has been before nor could he place it apart of any known book in the event this is all just imagination from some crazy childhood fantasy. He couldn’t remember his past before the age of 8, however not that it matters unless this is where he is from. John is not afraid of being at this locale; quite frankly he was content with it and felt a sort of peace, longing to explore the unknown reasoning of the spectacular buildings. Each section of glass on the buildings seems to be compressed with different molecules than what he knew to be glass. It was alive, reflecting, and vigorously reading every emotion from the people that passes. The windows above begin to turn to leaves, mushrooms, and all sorts of plant life. Above, only the tallest of these magnificent creations spawn water as they disappeared within the translucent cumulonimbus clouds that formed peaceful, gentle falls that become rivers streaming to the ground in few spread out fountains that children would play in. Architecture and wildlife blend harmoniously together in depiction of tranquil beauty of a lost and forgotten civilization that lay deep within his dreams or were they memories forcing their way to existence with his present life.

The wind brushed his spiked medium brown hair from the east with a slight temperate coolness