The Boy with One Ear
A dramatic Fantacy
by Robert Fullerton
A fatal bus accident happens deep in the cavernous tunnels of a mountainous Mexican city. In spite of mysterious circumstances, it is quickly blamed on the bus driver and the city moves on.
Two families never do...
Years later, the marriage of Arturo, the son of the bus driver, and Reina, the sister of a strange young boy who was purported to have died in the accident, puts the past of these two families onto a collision course that forces both the families and a local priest to face what they couldn’t face before.... the unknown.
Reina, a young mother, must act against her husband’s wishes... and her mother’s warnings, to discover the truth about the accident, the shocking revelation of her dead brother’s absence from his gravesite and the mysterious presence of ancient and forgotten gods.
Arturo, estranged since the accident from his father, has stubbornly maintained his father’s guilt, but he is now a father himself. Through a freak accident he comes to realize his own fallibility and finally must confront his fear of accepting his father’s innocence and of meeting his father for the first time as a man.
In the end, a young boy’s courageous battle with ancient gods is honored and two families, now one family, is whole again.
© 2008, Robert Fullerton. raf.icopyright.com
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