- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Anthologies
- Language:English
- Pages:176
- Paperback ISBN:9781098325138
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Overview
This is called a mosaic novel as it is comprised of many
different stories in several genres by a small group of authors, sharing some common characters. Many
of these chapters can be read as complete stories in and of themselves,
but at the end of the book, this is one story involving time travel, some insects, and their effects in the local community and the chaos they ensue in people's lives. Most of these completely fictional stories involve real places in and around Stark County, Ohio.
Description
In 1961, Thomas Berg visits his family's ancestral home in Norway to finalize his late uncle's estate. Situated at the base of Norway's Northernmost mountain, Mt. Jeghorerdet, the centuries-old town of Gammel is where Thomas Discovers Freake and Monter's Emporium on a whim while looking for souvenirs.
It is there he meets Jonas Freake and gets caught in a cat-and-mouse game between Jonas and his nemesis, Vincent Demonico. At this point, Thomas is sent back in time trapped in a magical clock shop with Jonas's prized possessions - the timeflies - in order to keep them from Demonico.
While on a camping trip in 1921, four friends find Thomas in his clock shop and accidentally let the timeflies escape into the world causing havoc to all they encounter.
This is an adventure spanning three centuries with the friends as they search for the timepiece that will send the timeflies back to Thomas and his shop and ultimately send the clock shop back to Norway and Jonas Freake.
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