FEATURED BOOK
The Myths of Maudlin - Part One
WHERE THE SKY CHILDREN FELL
Thomas Smak
After the death of his mother, six-year-old Elliott Avenue embarks on an unusual family trip. During a visit at a rest stop, he loses consciousness and wakes up thirty-seven days later in an orphanage in the heart of Maudlin, West Carolina. His father and sister remain missing.
Elliott's new life includes a loving but mentally unstable foster mother, a group of boys who claim they fell from the sky, and a mysterious shadow figure he calls the Grey Man.
Over the next twelve years, Elliott receives "birthday gifts" from his foster mother in the form of bizarre stories about Maudlin's past. These stories pull back the curtain on an ominous secret that sleeps beneath their city.
When he's not unraveling the many myths of Maudlin, Elliott searches for meaning in his life while fighting the demons that rage inside him.
FEATURED AUTHOR
THOMAS SMAK
Fiction
Thomas Smak is a professional UX writer living in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.
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While sitting by himself at a National Coney Island in January 2004, he pulled out his journal and started brainstorming ideas for what would eventually become The Myths of Maudlin series. 17 years later, he finished writing his first novel, Where the Sky Children Fell.
Along with writing fiction, he enjoys Peanuts comics, synthesizers, video games, Settlers of Catan, making friends with bees, studying existential dread, hunting ghosts, and gardening with his wife.
