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Frank Arcilesi
Mr. Arcilesi is the author of 'Every Day a Bird Learns How to Fly,' a five star romance novel. The novel, set in the 1950's in a small conservative Maryland town, is about a teenager who develops a close tender relationship with his best friend's you attractive stepmother. Both struggle with it and fight hard to end the relationship. Midwest Book Review has given it 5 of 5 stars.
He has also written several fictional short stories available on Amazon.com including 'The Vampire Chaser' (a novella), 'Jen Jen is Missing' (a children's chapter book), 'Alien Contact', 'Ghost Informant' (a murder ghost story), 'Bigfoot and the Boundary,' as well as other non-fiction articles on various topics including collecting, travel, cars, snowboarding, as well as TV reviews. |
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A beautiful young woman comes into a man's life and he falls in love with her, but after several months he shockingly discovers she's not mortal but one of an elite breed of vampires that walks by day just like a normal human.
After escaping him, he struggles with his emotions but ultimately decides he must pursue her and end her existence before she takes more lives. But it won't be easy.
LICENSE TO BITE
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In this UNUSUAL story, a policeman discovers a strange informant and sets out to solve a murder that hasn't even been reported. The paranormal world and a by-the-book policeman come together as a recently murdered girl's apparition reaches out to him in a plea to find her body. "Find me," she whispered out of thin air from the back seat of his car--but she wasn't really there when he turned around.
GHOST INFORMANT
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Six Sci Fi short stories about Bigfoot, a strange execution, a Beagle that dabbles in psychiatry, a peculiar flower ritual, a mysterious lady who likes kites, and a bonus political humor story (33,130 words).
STRANGE
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Two Stories:
Voyage to the 1950s
This is a Sci-Fi novelette (21,422 words, 10 Chapters)
An UNUSUAL UFO time travel story as Brad finally gets to meet his obsession, Amanda, and that's not easy since he's in the 21st century and she's in the 20th century.
In this unusual UFO story, a gray alien and his abductee strike an unlikely bargain involving time travel back to the 1950s.
As an experiment to observe human behavior, the gray alien commander of UFO offers his craft's time travel capabilities to propel Brad Anderson back to the 1950s to meet his obsession--a girl in a picture on his grandmother's wall that is over 50 years old. It's an offer that Brad just can't refuse.
STRANGE II
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This is a short story.
She was attractive but mysterious. When a CPA takes a weekend vacation trip to Ocean City, Maryland, he finds himself returning a stray kite to a somewhat sad, beautiful mysterious lady in the apartment above him. He soon becomes attracted to her and she leads him on a journey back to her past. It will be a trip and a pretty lady he will not soon forget.
JANET'S MYSTERIOUS JOURNEY BACK TO HER KITE LOFT
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This is a Sci-Fi novelette (21,419 words, 10 Chapters)
An UNUSUAL UFO time travel story as Brad finally gets to meet his obsession, Amanda, and that's not easy since he's in the 21st century and she's in the 20th century.
In this unusual UFO story, a gray alien and his abductee strike an unlikely bargain involving time travel back to the 1950s.
As an experiment to observe human behavior, the gray alien commander of a UFO offers his craft's time travel capabilities to propel Brad Anderson back to the 1950s to meet his obsession--a girl in a picture on his grandmother's wall that is over 50 years old. It's an offer that Brad just can't refuse.
THE SEARCH FOR AMANDA
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An awkward relationship develops between a teenager and a young married woman. Jimmy, a clean-cut teenager in 1958 and Carol, a very religious young married woman are entangled in a tender and sometimes humorous relationship as their lives collide unexpectedly into an unexpected attraction to each other. Jimmy finds something fresh and beautiful in Carol, a religious young woman who wears a mysterious gold chain around her neck that intrigues him. And Carol discovers that Jimmy’s positive outlook on life and sensitive nature fulfills a need for love in her life. Both try to break free of this unlikely and forbidden attraction to each other and also must struggle with a blackmailer’s threats.
Jimmy immerses himself in his history books and Carol goes to church to seek guidance and even distracts herself by volunteering to do work for a neighbor she doesn’t even like, but none of those strategies seems to work too well to quell this attraction. Trouble is definitely brewing for both. Something’s got to be done before the town folk, friends, family and Carol’s husband figure out what’s going on, especially when a blackmailer threatens to expose it all.
EVERY DAY A BIRD LEARNS HOW TO FLY
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It's the 1950s in a small conservative Maryland town. Life is slow and easy and romance takes its natural course in a proper and prescribed way, but sometimes it doesn't work quite that way. Rules get broken and emotions tangle abruptly.
An awkward relationship develops between a teenager and a young married girl. Jimmy, a clean-cut teenager in 1958 and Carol, a very religious young married woman are entangled in a tender and sometimes humorous relationship as their lives collide unexpectedly into an unexpected attraction to each other. Jimmy finds something fresh and beautiful in Carol, a religious young woman who wears a mysterious gold chain around her neck that intrigues him. And Carol discovers that Jimmy’s positive outlook on life and sensitive nature fulfills a need for love in her life. Both try to break free of this unlikely and forbidden attraction to each other and also must struggle with a blackmailer’s threats.
Jimmy immerses himself in his history books and Carol goes to church to seek guidance and even distracts herself by volunteering to do work for a neighbor she doesn’t even like, but none of those strategies seems to work too well to quell this attraction. Trouble is definitely brewing for both. Something’s got to be done before the town folk, friends, family and Carol’s husband figure out what’s going on, especially when a blackmailer threatens to expose it all.
BROKEN WEDDING VOWS
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This is a short story.
Martin Fenton had finally decided to seek help for his problem. It had cost him his wife and job, and turned him into a buffoon-like figure to others.
As he sat on the couch, he stared at his new analyst--an insightful Beagle that sat poised in the chair across from him.
SYDNEY, THE BEAGLE, IS MY ANALYST
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This is a children’s’ chapter book for ages 7 to 11 (9 chapters, 7533 words with illustrations).
A valuable lesson is learned about jumping to conclusions and trusting people in this story about a lost Siamese cat:
Jen Jen is Henry's Siamese cat but she's gone missing and no one can find her. Henry's best friend Marcie thinks Henry's unfriendly neighbor Mrs. Buford has taken her.
The story begins when Jen Jen gets out and Henry and his best friend Marcie chase after her. She runs onto Mrs. Buford's porch. Mrs. Buford definitely doesn't like visitors, especially Jen Jen who likes to eat her plants.
JEN JEN GOES VISITING
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