Tudor, Randy B
Description
The sheriff would rather be working on his model train layout but the world keeps interrupting. First the footprints. Then a mountain disappears. Then
...
a dangerous tribe of name-starved Stiltskins step out of the shadows. Shadows that are strangely alive. In the background, a lawless Ferris wheel carries people off to unknown worlds.
Small Miles is the story of a small town where a paradox waits around every corner, where numbers are fickle and the laws of physics float an inch or so above the ground, where local artists and writers, religious figures and politicians, lawyers and scientists, clairvoyants and law enforcement scratch their heads, wondering what the Old People would do. You know, the Old People who painted the world into being.
Small Miles is also a story about names, the necessity for them but also their limited usefulness in a growing, flowing world. And a story about stories. Even characters in a book - whether they realize it or not - depend on stories to tie their lives together.
Read more