Camdigan by C. Dennis Moore

Camdigan by C. Dennis Moore

Released by Scrybe Press
©2004 C. Dennis Moore
Cover Art
©2004 Roel Wielinga
Chapbook 48 pages.
RRP: $4.49 USD.


The scenery reminded him of a graveyard, all stone gray with dead flowers and an overcast sky…..

A twelve year old girl reminds him of Rose, but she was dead…..

The name Theodore Mathew Miller, was also familiar…

A large woman, no more than thirty, looked like someone he knew….

Welcome
to Camdigan penned by C. Dennis Moore. A riveting chapbook that is easy
to read and hard to put down. The main characters are three dimensional
and utterly believable as they leap from the pages.

The story
revolves around, David, a man who has tried and failed to get over the
death of his wife. Many years have passed since that terrible day, when
she stepped onto the road without looking. It’s time for a new place, a
new location and new start, so he packs his bags and heads for Seattle,
to be a guitar teacher.

Taking a wrong turn off the highway,
he ends up in Camdigan. Realizing his mistake, he tries backtracking,
to get back to the highway -- but every road he takes leads to a dead
end.

At first, the town looks empty like a ghost town, until David spies a twelve year old girl, who runs from him.

The
girl, Beth, becomes the center focus of this story. She explains
Camdigan to David the only way in is through the birthing pool. His
arrival here, she can’t explain. Camdigan is the place where the dead
live until they are ready to move on. The reverend of the only church
seems to run the place. The only way out is along Halo street, a road
that leads only to Oblivion.

David decides he isn’t going to
leave without the girl and they try escaping using the birthing pool,
but Beth is from Camdigan, she was born here and as such, is an anchor
to this place of the dead. She can’t leave this way, maybe he can and
later attempts to escape again.

The reverend is furious, he
tried to leave with Beth. The townsfolk rise up to stop him, hundreds
of the dead, line the streets. They are everywhere, they hurl rocks and
block his path. David is not allowed to leave.

And through all this, Camdigan is growing, expanding. New houses are materializing to accommodate the new arrivals.

C.
Dennis Moore has painted a town I have never seen or experienced
before. Vivid in it’s grayness and stark in possibility, it will rock
you from the first page. The style is smooth and flowing, leading from
the questions in the start to the answers in the middle and the
explosive ending.

Definitely a great addition to any library.