The Days of Pilothead Sound (DOPS)

  What do a burned-out artist, a washed-up Native American film star, an exiled Bolivian nobleman from a lost-in-time, Inca-era Amazonian stronghold, and a coastal town whose main source of income is its dogs, have in common? A shared yearning for long-lost family, a heightened spiritual Discernment, and above all, and above all the desire to start over in a completely new life... But unanticipated complications and dangers await as well, in the form of intruding "anomalies" and horrifying messengers from a lost age resurrected to mesh with modern, dimension-bridging technology.

  Despite the fantasy/adventure overtones, DOPS is a saga above all constructed around relationships, many of them unusual owing to the covert physical peculiarities of the characters themselves. Love and friendship take many forms, and sometimes go unrecognized for years, even by those harboring the feelings. But times of danger and desperation make necessary the forging of strange alliances, some of which can reach from a quaint and eccentric town in coastal Maine to faraway depths of timeless, cult-infested jungle...where villages, cafes, and even supper clubs still manage to flourish!