Ghost Vendetta

Forest Nelson walks through a cluster of worn and crooked gravestones. He wears a black suit, white shirt, black tie, and black dress shoes. Although Forest is only twenty-six years old, his eyes are tired, sitting atop grayish blue bags, and his face is worn and wrinkled with stress. He carries a bouquet of red roses in his left hand. Forest continues through the graveyard until he stops abruptly at a stone that is new, standing upright, and recently engraved. He kneels, places the flowers on the gravestone, then closes his eyes and says a silent prayer. In his folded hands, he holds a necklace with a cross that dangles at its end.

Peter Hershey graduated with degrees in both history and law from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. He is an avid writer, and has published many articles, short stories, and essays. He has previously published three novels, The Beginning of the End, Little People of the Big Forest, and My Last Year in Pennsylvania, one collection of poetry, Glimmer of Hope, and one collection of essays, The Hershey Papers Collection: Volumes I-V. He currently works as an attorney in Maryland.