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From Under the Bed
Jonah Joseph doesn’t question his faith; he never had any. When his parents divorce, Jonah escapes his father’s cultish church and turns his back on the legacy his father had planned for him. Years later, after he marries Ashley and they have their first child, Ilana, Jonah moves the budding family to a safe neighborhood in a small city in Ohio. When Ashley and Ilana vanish, Jonah scrambles to uncover the truth about their disappearance.
In his search, he discovers faith, but it’s poisoned with rage. Everyone is a suspect in what seems like a nefarious act of abduction. All the while, glimpses of Ashley’s true predicament reveal how little time she has left. A suspicious text reunites Jonah with his father, leaving Jonah struggling with the question, “Can forgiveness be corrupted?” When all hope is lost, Jonah finds an answer buried in the ground.
From Under the Bed is Local Woman Missing meets Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone flavored with Child of God, complete as a 78,000 word upmarket suspense thriller set in the modern day American Midwest.
The Point of Impact
Two deaths, two loves, one way to go.
Johnny Bouter has less than three seconds to live. The Point of Impact chronicles Johnny’s last moments as he falls from a balcony nine stories high in this fast paced thriller by Joseph Toto.
Johnny plummets to the ground as time begins to slow. The faster he falls, the slower time becomes until it reaches a near stop. He finds a doorway into Heaven, but instead of the Heaven that he expected, Johnny finds a world running rampant with demons swallowing lost souls.
What goes through a person’s mind in the moments just before death? What remains after horror abruptly scrapes away all of life’s pretense within the time span of one deep breath? How much time do you have left?
Johnny makes his way through Heaven in a desperate search for salvation, while in the real world his body inches closer and closer to doom at the point of impact.
Click below for the terrible story of why The Point of Impact was never submitted for representation.
