by Paula Cappa
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About the Author
Paula Cappa is a published short story author, novelist, and freelance copy editor. Her short fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Human Writes Literary Journal, and Mystery Time. Paula’s writing career began as a freelance journalist for newspapers in New York and Connecticut.
Her debut novel Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural launched in October 2012. The Dazzling Darkness, her second novel, won the Gothic Readers Book Club Choice Award for outstanding fiction and won the Ebook Cover Design Award for May 2013 by Joel Friedlander. She writes a weekly fiction blog about classic short stories, Reading Fiction,Tales of Terror at her web site at https://paulacappa.wordpress.com/.
Contact Paula Cappa at https://paulacappa.wordpress.com/contact-me/.
On the following pages, you can read the opening chapter to Night Sea Journey.
Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural
By
Paula Cappa
Copyright © 2012 by Paula Cappa
All rights reserved. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, locations, organizations, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke—Ay! And what then?”
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet of Kubla Khan, Anima Poetae.
