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    The Promise
    The Promise
    The Promise
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    The Promise

    By Gary Kuyper

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    Many children go through a phase where they have an imaginary friend, but what if that 'friend' was not as imaginary as expected? Also, what if that entity had a very disturbing agenda to complete?
    After reading this chilling story, you might just take your child's fantasies a little more seriously!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGary Kuyper
    Release dateJun 28, 2011
    ISBN9781466119581
    The Promise
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    Gary Kuyper

    Gary Kuyper began his professional literary career writing self-help and general interest articles for Daan Retief Publishers who produced a monthly book for their woman’s club called Woman’s Forum. These articles would sometimes require research and had titles as diverse as The Human Brain and Body Painting!Being a professional photographer on a part-time basis Gary has also managed to have his articles on photography (With accompanying photographs) published in books and magazines. He has also done some free-lance photography and photojournalism projects for numerous local newspapers.Over the past four years he has constantly managed to be one of the top finalists in the Nova Short Story Competition (A competition for budding writers of science fiction and/or fantasy).Last year (2009) Gary had the pleasure of seeing The Devil's Little Tadpoles grace the pages of the local SF & Fantasy Fanzine Probe.He is an avid film buff and amateur film maker. A few years ago I managed to take first prize in the SA Ten Best Film Makers Competition with a short film entitled The Crimson Cobra - An action-packed martial arts / superhero movie using some of the very talented local artists.He is a qualified prosthetics make-up artist and has used this talent on both amateur and professional productions. He has also appeared on television in a youth program especially made for enlightening people in the art of special effects make-up.Gary has a rather excellent general knowledge being not only an avid writer but reader of any material that is able to stimulate him cerebrally.He taught himself Adobe Photoshop and has become adapt and proficient enough at utilizing the software to such a degree that he has managed to sell a number of creations to various institutes and organizations. He is particularly fond of a logo designed for the Krazy Mug Coffee Shop and several covers that have graced the front of Probe.Gary has a vast knowledge of music and has appeared on the local Television Music Quiz Show Note for Note where he was able to win a substantial amount of prize money.In 2008 he entered the SF / Fantasy Mini Radio Play Competition and took first prize with his The Adventures of Captain Max Power of the Intergalactic Police - an obvious homage to the early Flash Gordon radio series’. A number of skilled professionals are now planning to produce Max to CD and have it aired on a local radio station (SAfm).All his literary and photojournalistic accomplishments have been done on a part-time basis due to the fact that his full time career is lecturing mathematics as well as engineering science at a Technical College. Although this is a most fulfilling profession, it has long been Gary's ideal to become a full-time writer – especially of fantasy, science fiction and horror novels.He has recently published his first full-length fantasy novel - The Chronicles of Baltrath: The DARK WIZARDS.As a considerable amount of time and effort has been expended in building the world of Baltrath, Gary has begun work on a sequel to The Dark Wizards.

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    The Promise - Gary Kuyper

    The PROMISE

    A Ghost Story

    By

    Gary Kuyper

    This is a first edition

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author

    Copyright © Gary van Nikkelen Kuyper 2011

    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales, is entirely coincidental

    Smashwords Edition

    This book is also available at amazon.com

    ISBN 1 46366 579 2

    DEDICATION

    For my very good friend, Alida Coetsee

    The Promise

    Hate? asked the child psychologist frowning. So Audrey, you’re saying that Ghosts are created through hate?

    "I told you before, they don’t like to be called that!" The eight year old spoke without looking up. She seemed more interested in finishing the drawing she had been asked to make. She had been asked to draw a picture depicting her family. She was making copious use of the red and black pencils.

    Whose hate, Audrey?

    Their own of course, that’s why you don’t get any animal wispies. Animals don’t hate anybody or anything. They just…dislike. That’s why the dog they put down that mauled Mikey never became a wispy. Animals don’t lie around planning revenge on the people that hurt them or make them angry. When those people aren’t around, the animal is just sleeping off its last meal and dreaming of the next. They don’t wish anybody dead. If you put a cat and a dog together in a room they will dislike each other because it’s in their nature to do so, but when you separate them again they don’t go off and start scheming on how to kill each other. That’s why only people become wispies.

    "So gho…wispies are then created because of their own hatred?"

    Yep, when a leaden dies with too much hate inside them, then that hate keeps them from passing over.

    You mean going to heaven?

    Audrey ignored the question and said, One John chapter three verse fifteen.

    What does that say?

    "If you hate someone then you’re just as bad as a murderer."

    If all wispies are made from hate, then surely all wispies are bad? Is your friend bad?

    Not necessarily. Sometimes the bad person is the one who caused them to hate.

    Then how come they can’t…pass over?

    Many have…later on. When the leadens that caused them to hate so much were no more, then the hate was gone and they could pass over. Although lots have passed over, there are still many that have been wispies for a long long time. Some just can’t seem to let go of the hate.

    "Who

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