BEYOND THE POINT

A terrific pounding on his farmhouse door shakes an old man, widowed and alone, from a fitful slumber. From out of the swirling snowflakes of the worst storm in decades comes a menace that the aged farmer is ill prepared to deal with. The Sea Shell Frame. Lyle Wingate III sets off in his 1974, MGB for a cross- country trip to California. Passing through the white-hot heat of a drought filled Kansas summer the old car gives out stranding the young traveler in a treeless expanse that offers little hope of rescue. In a desolate old house, Wingate encounters a being not of this world whose designs on his body go beyond anything his mind can imagine. All the Pleasures of Kansas. Asa Breen hacks out a farmstead on the trackless Northern Illinois prairie only to be caught up in an Indian invasion led by Chief Black Hawk in the spring of 1832. A chance meeting with a Potawatomi maiden saves his life and commences a post war saga in Stillmans Run. Boys struggle to reach manhood and deal with the pitfalls of decision-making and romance in the stories entitled, A Catfish is a Plain Damned Wonderment, The Rookie, and The Senior. Ed LeCrone produces a collection of eleven short stories that are filled with twists, intrigue and unexpected endings in his second book, Beyond the Point. LeCrones writing style harkens to earlier American authors namely