Up Above and the Runaway

Zoe and Tod meet Mac, a homeless person, who they knew as Rock Man from an otherworldly experience. They all try to help a runaway teenager, who has dissociated into a symbolic world. Things become even more complicated when their lives intersect with a doctor, in need of a human subject for a risky experimental procedure. In the end something uncanny happens, which show Zoe and Tod that their fantasy had some basis in reality. This story explores the meaning of symbolic worlds, the danger that others can pose in not understanding them, and how resolution and true healing can occur.

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Up Above and the Runaway

Zoe and Tod meet Mac, a homeless person, who they knew as Rock Man from an otherworldly experience. They all try to help a runaway teenager, who has dissociated into a symbolic world. Things become even more complicated when their lives intersect with a doctor, in need of a human subject for a risky experimental procedure. In the end something uncanny happens, which show Zoe and Tod that their fantasy had some basis in reality. This story explores the meaning of symbolic worlds, the danger that others can pose in not understanding them, and how resolution and true healing can occur.

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Up Above and the Runaway

Up Above and the Runaway

by Michael A Susko
Up Above and the Runaway

Up Above and the Runaway

by Michael A Susko

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Overview

Zoe and Tod meet Mac, a homeless person, who they knew as Rock Man from an otherworldly experience. They all try to help a runaway teenager, who has dissociated into a symbolic world. Things become even more complicated when their lives intersect with a doctor, in need of a human subject for a risky experimental procedure. In the end something uncanny happens, which show Zoe and Tod that their fantasy had some basis in reality. This story explores the meaning of symbolic worlds, the danger that others can pose in not understanding them, and how resolution and true healing can occur.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781393023791
Publisher: Allroneofus Publishing
Publication date: 11/06/2019
Series: Worlds to the Side , #1
Pages: 108
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.26(d)
Age Range: 13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Michael Susko, M.S. in Counseling Psychology, has varied experiences which helped him to write this story. For many years, he worked as a Psychiatric Halfway House Counselor, and as a Homeless Outreach Worker for Social Services. He has been active in the rights of psychiatric patients, collecting and edited oral histories for publication. Last, he served as President of CIRCARE, a national organization that protects the rights of research subjects. The author gives real-life witness to dramas that happen, but are little known to the larger world.

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