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What's a grown man to do, living in the shadow of one of the nation's most famous entertainers?
Run away from home, of course.
Stefan Mackechnie is the son of Delonia Mackechnie, famous folk-singer and variety show host. When he writes a letter to his dead father, he receives an unexpected reply, a message that leads him on a journey across the ocean to a timeless city where he'll face love, oblivion, and eternity.
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For the next half hour he wrote, his handwriting getting smaller and smaller as he went so he could say as much as possible in the space of the page. He wrote all the things he'd never spoken before, and described as best he could everything that had happened since he was nine and his father made that fateful step off the stage, falling into the percussion section of the orchestra pit, impaled on a high-hat. People said his father was a drunk, but he refused to believe it. With barely enough room for another line, he realised he hadn't actually asked his father for anything. Maybe there was no need. But that was the point of this exercise, so he wrote two words in the tiny space left in the corner of the page: "Save me."
He'd completely forgotten about the cleric. "Hello?"
"Hello," said a contented voice from the other side of the divider