Ben Raterman, Author
Short Stories
Two estranged couples, broken business partners, are reluctantly reunited by a damaged chimney.
A discovery that provokes a change. From a cobble of dusty books to a placid sea and its warm sands.
When a small girl wakes to find the playground in the park across the street has become a war zone, she is both frightened and curious, wanting to know what has happened. Her parents and neighbors and the media have few answers. The explosions and gunfire across the street rattle her house and present scenes of destruction and death the neighborhood finds hard to bear. It is Caitlin's curiosity about where her playground has gone that draws her into the war zone and changes her life.
Artificial intelligence and a new world of creative enterprise.
Occurrences high above may affect those far below in ways we do not and cannot see.