An introduction to “Nocturnes: Heaven and Hell” a new book, underway, by Melrose Man.

Essentially “Nocturnes; Heaven and Hell” is a ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ story retold or newly invented by Melrose Man.

Ursula, heroine of the story, grows to be a teen in an isolated northern California coastal town. Growth spurts early on cause her to be nick-named “Jack .“ She becomes beautiful; slender as a beanstalk with her head in the clouds… a giant 7’ tall: Jack is bi-polar ..a person speaking in voices while intent on hearing them as well…her two main personas within her do her talk talk …talk… Felicity Anne; or Will the Talker; both are giants wanting to get loose within her asap.

“Like people everywhere while growing up Jack longed to travel to other places to visit, think of and learn about the world she wished to visit: She spent a great deal of her day dreaming in a room favored by her family who inherited the house Jack was raised in not far from the ocean: one special room had a copy of a painting in three panels by Heironymous Bosch entitled, “The Gardens of Earthly Delight” and so…this painting became her exit …a map of sorts to the outside world: … one day while standing in the tidal flow at the mouth of a river that talks from the bottom of its soul this giant of a teenager dared to speak back and the littlest of little things tumbled her over into the out pulling ocean tide …”

Melrose Man skillfully blends wonder with the horrors of life unimagined into the magic of life spent through eight stories in this book of wonders, mindbenders and curiosities; each a cabinet of experience that Jack has lived through… and is living in still.

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