Historical Fiction with a Whimsical Twist
If you love to read or hear the English language replete with all its foibles and confoundabilities, the Chestnut Point Stories, written by Jackson Tel, are your cup of tea.
The stories are written for those who enjoy traveling back in time with a sense of humor. However, be forewarned: readers may be drawn into the land of the subconscious and the surrounding mystical realms, or they might be enticed down a rabbit hole —or two.
Readers follow the often slapstick lives of the ‘Patuxent River’ Mann family of Maryland, who first settled along the shores of that lovely river during colonial times. The characters who manage to make it all the way through to the twenty-first century are to be congratulated, as they will be on a twisty-turning-winding roller coaster ride throughout the series.
However, to those characters who stubbornly stick around as themselves, attending to unresolved issues, one can only say, “Get a new life, for God’s sake!”
And ‘Good riddance!’ to those who do something that gets them kicked out of the story series completely.
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The Black Jellybeans EPISODE ONE
1906, Jim Crow, Baltimore
When Jim Eberton, the heir apparent to the Eberton family fortune in Baltimore, finds out that he is part-Negro he asks himself, “Who am I truly?”
Jim is facing imminent bankruptcy if he doesn’t get rye whiskey tycoon Craig ‘Money Bags’ Bigg to sign his John Hancock on the bottom line of the investment contract that very afternoon. But events are conspiring against him.