The Edge of Reality

A cold-blooded killer, a sweet old couple, and an Amtrak train. When these three elements meet, strange things happen. Ruthless murderer and misanthrope Ed Hill, has been on a killing rampage across the United States for decades. The police and FBI have not been able to catch him, and fear that no one ever will. But when Ed meets a peculiar elderly Hindu couple on a train, his luck begins to change in ways he could not ever imagine.

Steve Morton and his lovely wife, Cherie live a good life, as a thirty-something couple just starting to take off in their respective careers. That is until a speedbump intrudes on their tranquil road of existence. It is a hiccup in spacetime that begins to unravel reality as they know it. It is a horrible recurring event that appears to have but one escape–death.

High school basketball phenom, self-proclaimed super-star, and misguided misogynist, Chad Walker has vividly envisioned his future. He has no doubt about who and what he will be and will let nothing and no one stand in his way. When Chad stumbles across a device that can literally make all his problems disappear, he embraces the power to make his every wish come true.

Call it a rut, a vicious cycle of monotony, or a never-ending Groundhog Day, in any case, he lived his life, nonetheless. While his day-to-day existence gave him satisfaction and fulfilment, his enemy received its gratification only from terrorizing and destroying the defenseless, the helpless and those confined to such mundane lives. His enemy lived to kill. But when that adversary turned his wrath toward the one who lived a simple routine life, he received the surprise of his life.

The old campfire story; that mysterious, dark tall-tale, told, or rather performed, in the midst of the wilderness by the dancing light and shadows of a small campfire, with the indubitable purpose of scaring young campers out of their proverbial wits. While good campfire story tellers could send quivers into the depths of childhood minds, the best performers could impose a freezing terror on their juvenile audiences leaving them with slightly unnerving, yet fond memories of a well-spent summer vacation.