Great Merlyn's Ghost: One

The focus is on using reason and imagination in scoping the human reality of being dead and of being alive in a fiction.

The focus is on using reason and imagination in scoping the human reality of being dead and and of being alive in a fiction. Merlyn, who died in the 7th century, dreams of how it was before the first Rebellion of the Dead and how it is living within Richard Greystone, a twin, in the 21st century. Each chapter is divided into four segments: "The Dead", "The Brothers", "Grandma's Stories" and "Diplomatic Pouch. The Dead is how it is for Merlyn being among the Dead. The Brothers is how it is for Merlyn to be among the Living. Grandma's Stories is about the Dead telling personal memories from life. Diplomatic Pouch is set in present day where three Earthling deal with meeting three marsupial humanoids from ThreePlanets on the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy. These humanoids show their higher humanity in their actions. These humane aliens are 20,000 years ahead of us in technology and are of a more sharing culture. They live better than we do on Earth. Their Dead also exist with our Dead. Merlyn dreams these segments to show perspective on how it is being, living as a human being on Earth and then on how it is being dead so the Living have a better idea of what to expect in a fiction.

The author is a retired college prep/AP teacher of literature and expository writing in both private and public high schools whose primary goal was to teach his students to think first. His imagination is reasoned. That is the way it was in his classroom and that is the way it is in his novels -- reasoned imagination. He has published three novels through iUniverse -- Braided Dreams, Running Through and Merlyn's Mind. Richard has been and is contentedly married to Carol Hammond who was his sister's roommate at Otterbein University back in 1965. They share one daughter who is married and has two boys. Richard's main interests are in literature, philosophy, science and writing about the basic human condition. He and Carol enjoy family, friends, reading, music, films, television, travel and their privacy.