Five Mile Bridge has been closed for years, slowly decaying and seemingly forgotten over the fields west of Bryan, Ohio. Joshua Kendall stood there once with a friend now gone. But a return trip to the bridge washes Joshua backward in time and memory, giving him the chance to rediscover parts of his life he thought he'd lost. Yet even as he pries those memories loose like fossils from shale, Joshua's actions are rippling through the paths of time backward as well as forward, and as his mind wrestles with pasts he cannot remember, roads which have never existed are suddenly real.
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By Kyle Muntz
Oct 15, 2009
"Crossing Decembers" I found a copy of your novel on Wowio and enjoyed it immensely. It has one of the strongest opening paragraphs I've ever heard, a great name, and a very inviting concept. It seems to me to be a collage of blissful memory, not to mention well of great prose. Your language was rich (sometimes shockingly so), and never unreadable even during the more experimental sections of the book, and the structure had an almost stream of consciousness feel to it: like sitting outside watching the sunset, remembering life, reaffirming it. I was disappointed by the rather predictable ending, but I think the strength of this book lies in its glorification of memory (timeless moments that take a life and make it beautiful), and its glorious sense of the transcendent. At times it was almost painfully good.
