Reality Redefined

About the Book

'Reality Redefined' is a collection of 15 short stories with plots ranging from the seemingly mundane to characterizations of creatures from alternate dimensions and distant planets. The various characters become entangled in situations involving angels, demons, a masterful illusionist, a shape-changing seductress, the spirit of a murdered child, etc. The action moves from an observation of street people panhandling in the Atlantic City bus terminal, to a space explorer permanently marooned on a hostile planet, to a man challenged by a minion of Satan to trade his life for that of his daughter, etc., all without missing a beat. For any person who is a fan of science fiction, fantasy, and the paranormal, this is without a doubt a must-read book.

About the Author

It is a well-documented fact that a fiction writer's life experiences enhance the plots and characters that he or she creates. Kerry Deminski is a man who worked as a letter carrier for the United States Postal Service for three and a half decades, but also spent a lot of time before and during that period holding down other jobs as well. He worked as an armed guard for a detective agency, as a truck driver for a bookbinder, as a janitor, as a heating and air conditioning mechanic, as a theater usher, as a convenience store clerk, as a factory laborer. While still a teenager in Appalachia, he spent three years working after high school and on weekends for an uncle in the trucking business, shoveling coal and shouldering heavy blocks of ice into hundreds of homes in that financially-depressed region. During these jobs, and others not mentioned, Deminski filed away in his mind all of the people he met and the things they said and did, hoping to draw upon these experiences to enrich the books he knew he would write someday. Now that someday has arrived, and the prolific author turns out one, sometimes two, novels every year. Kerry Deminski has also received royalties for song lyrics he has written; he has sold humor to Playboy Magazine; he has been granted U.S. Patent Numbers 5,755,438 and 5,788,706 for two of his inventions.