Paul D Ellner: 3 books

Marika, the child of a wealthy Jewish–Hungarian woman and an American movie distributor, starts life in Budapest when Hitler comes into power. Her early years are marked by parental neglect and her mother’s suicide. With the onset of World War II, she is orphaned and swept-up into the horrors...

A man hears his long dead father’s voice on the phone. A hunter returns home to find himself in an alternate universe. A husband loses his shadow and perhaps his soul, and an anthropologist encounters live elves. These are some of the episodes in the twenty stories found here with unexpected conclusions, leaving the reader startled, amused, or to ponder for a moment or two...

Charles Handler and his wife Carole are en route to Epernay, France when they decide to stop off in Geneva, Switzerland to visit the largest high-energy particle accelerator in the world. While in the collider’s tunnel, 574 feet below the surface, a freak accident hurls Charles into an alternate...