A Glimpse Before and A Glimpse Beyond: Ancient Beacon, #1

By Dan Gallagher

How did the Neanderthals, the "Abli", really die off? Did the ancient "Khayni" have a hand in this? Travel back now to witness the last encounter and attempt to save the last Neanderthal. What was special about this prophet who tried to stop the slaughter tens of thousands of years before? Did his travels--through flame--bring him to just beyond the modern day? What is special about the young modern boy, Ben, who bragged to friends of his ability to travel? They laughed when he failed... but did he go beyond?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dan Gallagher
• Release date: Apr 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386519744

Dan Gallagher

A Writing Style Shaped by Life-experiences: As the youngest of eight in a Catholic working class family; as a soldier, scholar, family man, advisor and adventurer, Dan developed a vivid, hard-hitting style: He has trekked volcanoes, deserts, swamps; trudged Appalachian, Arizonan and Venezuelan heights & gorges. He has explored exotic locations like Macau, Hong Kong, the Everglades, Bayous, Mexico's Baja? even New Jersey! Attacked by a charging bear, Dan killed it at fourteen feet, evaded a northern Canada wolf-pack and an enraged moose. He's parachuted, been in a knife fight and numerous other life-threatening tangles. Though he's not seen combat, Dan held command of Mechanized Infantrymen in live-fire assaults, ambushes and defenses in Germany & the U.S.. He has lived in Rhode Island, Alexandria & Williamsburg, VA and North Carolina. Other personal experiences inform Dan's writing style. He knows what faith, race and age discrimination feel like. He helped reform court-marshalled soldiers, consoled the homeless and took charge in deadly accidents: a C-130 aircraft crash and a 110 mph motorcycle collision. In counseling clients (Dan's pre-retirement financial & business brokerage work), Dan handled hundreds of millions in transactions. He's seen what strengthens and dissolves relationships. Dan has experienced spiritual and miraculous phenomena and investigated those of others. Dan usually pursued simultaneous endeavors (studied Economics, Modern Languages, Finance Math, English, and was a published professional instructor). He's been a lifelong student of Natural Sciences, Comparative Religion and Cryptozoology. Dan and wife Laura have been in love for over three decades and treasured raising their four "snit-generating" kids. Several professional and personal tragedies have been profoundly humbling. Yet, through it all, Dan kept sane to help others. He says, "I give psychological counseling to my cat, Watson, who claims to be a sabre-tooth tiger. Watson must think I'm gullible: he never tries to convince others of his delusions." Dan is the author of financial & expository nonfiction and quite a bit of humor, but mostly speculative and adventure fiction; no fantasy. He endeavors to give readers vivid sensory and emotional experiences. His bio is at the AuthorDan website, AuthorDan.com or StoriesAmazing.com

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This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

A GLIMPSE BEFORE AND A GLIMPSE BEYOND

First edition. April 11, 2019.

Copyright © 2019 Dan Gallagher.

ISBN: 978-1386519744

Written by Dan Gallagher.

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A Glimpse Before

by Dan Gallagher

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Snickering and laughter seemed to enliven even the low flames of the stack-stone, communal fire pit as the Cro-Magnons leaped and shouted in their dramatic storytelling. Darkness nearly swallowed view of the fall colors in this vast deciduous forest that constituted most of what, in your time, is called the Iberian Peninsula of southwest Europe, sixty thousand winters ago. Bone- and branch-framed huts, some thatched roof to ground and others walled with animal skins, surrounded the meeting place which reeked of cooking meats, body odor, and leaf fungi. The cold could not penetrate the hearth area, nor the finely sewn fur coats and buckskin pants of these people, the Khayni.

A bearded man with a narrow nose had flipped upside-down, holding feet and hands to a wooden pillar that supported a huge spit propped high across the fire pit. He pointed and laughed at another Khayni who sat, arms crossed and smirking, but who lacked even a single laugh. Two fellow hunters, decked out with furry jackets and dog-head helmets, taunted the actor with barks.

One actor-hunter finger-jabbed and ridiculed another who clung, upended, to a spit pole. This display ridiculed the portrayed hunter, who sat silently nearby. Then, Loudest Feet yelled that our dogs would eat him if we didn’t let him down from the snare!

The other actor-storyteller knelt down and raised his leg at the suspended hunter. "But the dogs would never eat Loudest Feet. They just felt bad