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The Day the Stranger Came to Town Kindle Edition

by Greg Liles (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Limbo, a dusty, west-Texas border town, was first an Indian village. But the white man took the land by force, killing many of the Indians and chasing away the rest of them.

The Indians buried their dead on the outskirts of Limbo, fled to the mountains, but later returned and massacred everyone and left the town in ashes.

A Comanche spell, cast upon Limbo, prevented the souls of those who died there to be released into the spirit world and established a boundary to hold them there forever. The citizens of Limbo resurrected. They picked up where they’d left off, unaware how their lives had changed, but after certain suspicious events took place they realized that there were two sides to life – the one they lived in now and the one they all wanted to return to.

The townsfolk believed it was God who brought them back to life and that he would provide a sign that would show them how to return to their former lives. Given a second chance, they vowed against violence and all other sins in hopes they would be forgiven and released from their captivity.

Those who had risen became the regulars and those who wandered into Limbo were called outsiders. Regulars had no trouble spotting outsiders, but they soon found that outsiders could neither see nor hear them so it was impossible to communicate. Not many passed through Limbo, and those who did, didn’t stay long. But those wanderers, who were unfortunate enough to die of dehydration, malnutrition, heat stroke, or gunshot wounds, while inside the city limits, were surprised when they were rewarded with new life.

It didn’t happen often, but whenever it did, the regulars would vote whether to accept the outsider, and allow him to become a regular or banish him from town and send him across the boundary where he would cease to exist completely. In the course of time, a few good people had been accepted, but others who had been less desirable, had not.

Josh Duncan’s fate was yet to be determined the day he rode into town, and fell from his horse, dead from extreme dehydration and heat exhaustion. As were the fates of his father and brother, members of the Duncan Gang, who were headed there in order to cross over into Mexico to escape capture, and that of the U.S. Marshal who was right on their tail to avenge the deaths of his wife and daughter.

Josh needed to give his father a message and his father needed refuge from the marshal who wanted to kill him for what he’d done. Coming back to life in Limbo had its complications for Josh, who learned he could not speak nor give messages to the living, and by falling in love with a young local woman whose husband had been killed during the same Indian uprising as the rest of the town and resurrected as they had, but had been hung later by the residents for abusive behavior.

The man’s age at the time he and Josh met and the time that had passed since the town had hung him, and the fact that no one had any comprehension of time, did not make sense to Josh. He figured out the secrets behind Limbo, how the people could return to life, and convinced the townsfolk that if they listened to him that he could send them back. But his wife-to-be did not want to return, so Josh was at a crossroads.

When the marshal arrived in Limbo, and was ambushed by the Duncan Gang and sent to the afterlife, Josh put together a plan that would work for them all.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, events, and places portrayed in this book are products of the author’s imagination and are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BJPZ50A
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Greg Liles; 1st edition (February 20, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 20, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 398 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 170 pages

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Greg and his wife Brooke live happily in central Illinois with their Pomeranian daughter, Stella Isabella, and celebrated their thirty-eighth wedding anniversary in June of 2020. Father of four, grandfather of five, and recently great grandfather of four, Greg retired in 2000, after thirty-three-plus years of factory life so that he could have enough time to do all the things he likes.

His interests are many and include reading, playing guitar, playing piano, oil painting, pencil drawing, bicycling, woodworking, traveling, and gardening. But, what he enjoys most is spending time with his wife, family, and friends.

While he enjoys many things, and likes the challenge of learning something new, becoming an author always seemed out of reach. Then one morning, while drinking his fifth cup of coffee, Greg announced, "I think I'm gonna write a book," to which Brooke replied, "Go ahead then." His first book, typical to most writers, was about his childhood, but since then he's been spending nearly every morning at the computer creating fiction of all sorts.

He enjoys writing stories about kids and growing up, as well as detective and murder mysteries, tales of the occult, and even some with monsters and unbelievable journeys to other worlds.

But what he likes best is humor, and he sprinkles it within the pages of each of his books, because he's a firm believer that reading should be fun.