A Very Peculiar Man

A Very Peculiar Man

A Very Peculiar Man

A Very Peculiar Man

By John Buckner

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real places or real people are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Copyright ©2016 by John Buckner All rights reserved

ISBN-13: 978-1523699896

ISBN-10: 1523699892

Chapter 1

Nicholas Miles looked like an average person, but looks can sometimes be deceiving, which was the case with Nicholas. His ordinary appearing features masked an extraordinary Phenomenon that Nicholas simply called his 'gift'. Nicholas had dark, curly hair, brown eyes, rather large ears and wore dark horn-rimmed glasses. He weighed 158 pounds, and had been a A Very Peculiar Man dismal failure at almost everything he had attempted in his childhood. He was a legitimate nerd in elementary school, avoided by the other kids when possible, and tolerated when there was no other alternative. This had not bothered him much. He wasn't aware that he was being avoided. When he entered high school, he finally realized that he didn't fit in. He sought to remedy the situation by going out for sports. A Very Peculiar Man He tried football first. He lasted all of one practice before the coach advised him to try something a little less demanding. He moved on to basketball, where his A Very Peculiar Man lack of coordination became quickly evident. One failure after another, until he landed on the track team. Track was not a very popular sport at his school, and the coach struggled to field enough bodies for the meets. A Very Peculiar Man Although he was as ill-suited to track as to other sports, the coach placed him on the cross-country team. This suited Nicholas fine. He knew he was not fast, nor did he have the stamina normally associated with long distance A Very Peculiar Man running, but he loved the solitude of running the isolated course alone. He invariably finished last, but he didn't mind. At least he had found something in which he could take part. His efforts did partially achieve the desired effect. At least he was tolerated by more of his fellow students than he had been previously. The other students even started to call him Nick, which suited him fine. His mother had insisted that his name not be shortened in elementary A Very Peculiar Man school, and he had been Nicholas until he joined the track team. Nick's other problem could not be A Very Peculiar Man solved so easily. You see, Nick's problem was his ability to screw up anything he attempted. Oh, he got by fine in the academic world for the A Very Peculiar Man most part, but anything requiring coordination with another human being, or any sort of manual dexterity always seemed to end in disaster. His entire life had been that way. For instance, Nick had been in charge of decorations for the Senior Prom. The committee made the decisions as to the type of decorations and the theme. All Nick had to do was order the materials for delivery on A Very Peculiar Man the day before the Prom. He got the dates mixed up and ordered for the following week. This left the committee scurrying around until the final minute to get the decorating finished. Nick was so embarrassed that he didn't even go to the Prom.

Then there was his attempt at the martial arts. He heard that karate was a discipline of both the body and the mind and thought A Very Peculiar Man that this might be a good way to improve himself. He signed up for A Very Peculiar Man classes, and promptly got his arm broken during his first lesson. To deal with his many disappointments, Nick developed the habit of mentally talking to himself. He would carry on a two way conversation in his mind, much as many of us do with friends. This helped him to rationalize his failures, and maintain at least a semblance of normalcy. This habit continued through his A Very Peculiar Man three years at Boston College, and was what ultimately caused him to drop out. It happened in his junior year. He couldn't pinpoint the exact time, rather it seemed a gradual thing. While the mental conversations he had in the past would find him talking to himself and answering as the same person, he found he was beginning to converse mentally with people he was looking at. The strange part was that he had no control over these conversations. He would look at someone A Very Peculiar Man in class and in his mind would hear that person make some remark, usually derogatory. He would mentally answer and the conversation would continue, apparently of its own volition. Nick began to genuinely fear for his sanity. He decided to make a concerted effort to end the mental conversations, and found that he could avoid them by thinking of something pleasant, or just letting his mind go blank. Nick was sitting in a psychology class when he heard his father's voice in his mind. "Nick, we're both gone. You're on your own now." This time he didn't answer. He was so frightened that he simply closed his book, got up and walked out of the lecture hall. Just over an hour later, he was summoned to the Dean's office. Thinking that he might be in trouble for leaving the Psychology lecture, Nick tried to think of a plausible excuse. But when he arrived at the Dean's office, a policeman was there to inform him that both his parents had been killed in an automobile accident earlier in the day. Suddenly the voice Nick had heard took on greater meaning. Nick was confused and terrified at the implication of the day's events. Nick was an only child of middle class parents. Though not wealthy, his parents had adequate insurance, and a mortgage policy on the house, which paid it off in the event of their death. Nick was left with a furnished house, two cars, and over $400,000 in cash. After the funeral, he decided that college was no longer a necessity. He was still disturbed by his apparent 'mental defect', as he saw it. In order to A Very Peculiar Man think the problem through, Nick decided he needed some isolation. He placed the house with a broker to rent, sold one of the cars, and set out across country. He rented an isolated cabin in the Colorado Rockies and spent several weeks in serious self-examination. In the peace and tranquility of his isolation, Nick sought A Very Peculiar Man the answers to his questions. He reviewed his life from as early as he could remember, which surprisingly was to a very early age. He dissected every event and incident, trying to understand the forces shaping his life. He had about decided that his imagination was simply working overtime and he had imagined the whole thing when an incident occurred that convinced him he was either clairvoyant or crazy. He had been strolling through the woods, not paying attention to where he was going, when he was halted by a sudden feeling A Very Peculiar Man of fear. The fear was totally unreasonable, yet in his mind seemed very real. Glancing around, Nick spotted a deer in

the foliage, just off the trail he was following. He gazed at the deer. The fear seemed to be emanating from her. Nick walked slowly toward the deer, speaking to her soothingly. She seemed to sense that A Very Peculiar Man he meant her no harm, and the fear that Nick had felt slowly receded. Nick decided to experiment. In his mind he told the deer to turn and walk down the path ahead of him. To his amazement, she did. She walked a few steps down the trail, then took off in long bounding strides. Nick was astonished. Was it coincidence that the deer had turned when he had mentally told her to, or had he somehow communicated with the animal? After just about convincing himself that A Very Peculiar Man he was chasing windmills this incident rekindled his doubts. He would have to dig deeper for answers. Nick returned to the cabin, packed his belongings, and drove into town. He returned the keys to the owner and headed for Denver. In Denver, Nick spent the better part of a month, reading everything he could find on the subjects of Clairvoyance, psychic phenomena, parapsychology, witchcraft and A Very Peculiar Man extraterrestrial theory. He read biographies of supposed psychics and even delved into the writings of Nostradamus. Nothing brought the answers to his questions. Nick returned to Boston, where he did additional research into psychic phenomena. He had compiled a rather large file during his research in Denver, and added to it in Boston. He now had more than 50 supposed cases of persons with psychic abilities, the most notable being Edgar Cayce. He sorted the files as best he could, attempting to ascertain which subjects were still living. He further sorted to A Very Peculiar Man determine those which had the most solid documentation. He finally narrowed his list to two people, a woman in Pennsylvania, and an Indian in Window Rock, Arizona. He decided to follow-up on the two to see if he could learn anything that might give him additional insight into his problem. He now viewed his mental state as a '

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