In A Twilight State

By David F Eastman

Jennie Ruth Lemieux is taking a few day off from her counseling job in Pendleton, Oregon to visit her father in California. On her driving trip at night through the backroads of Eastern Oregon and the Steens Wilderness Mountains, she disappears, seemingly into thin air, and then reappears a week later with a fantastic story of alien abduction. Was it an illusion, a dream, a past life experience? In a twilight dream, she sees images of a past life too incredible to believe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: David F Eastman
• Release date: Dec 25, 2020

David F Eastman

I am an avid reader and passionate writer. I have written five eBooks and twenty short stories and my genres include science fiction, horror, political intrigue, conspiracy theories, fables and parables of life and love. I am currently working on two new eBooks, one about World War 2 and a second about a terrorist attack on the U.S.I am a retired life science and high technology marketing executive and currently mentor and guide scientists, physicians, medical students and engineers in launching their inventions and building a viable, successful and profitable start up.I have a Jewish heritage from both German and Polish grandparents, on my mother's side and an English, Native-American heritage of my father's side.I have one wife, one son, and four cats.I love to travel and learn about new cultures and people and just returned from a month long pleasure trip to Venice, Italy, New York City, Athens, Greece, Split Croatia, Montenegro and Zurich, Switzerland.I

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In A Twilight State

By David F Eastman

PROLOGUE

"Twilight Sleep was a forerunner to modern anesthesia. Throughout much of the early- to mid-20th century, mothers-to-be, about to give birth and suffering severe birthing pain, were most often the patients who underwent ‘twilight sleep’ or Dämmerschlaf as it was called by German physician Carl J. Gauss, credited with inventing it in 1903. Twilight sleep was an amnesic condition, a twilight state somewhere between sleep and wakefulness, characterized by insensitivity to pain without loss of consciousness, induced by an injection of morphine and scopolamine"--Brian Sabin, Van Winkle's, Published Nov 12, 2015.

Chapter One: Jennie’s Trip

Jennie Ruth Lemieux finished her last counseling session around 4:00 PM on Friday and left her office an hour or two earlier than usual. She was about to take a long road trip and she wanted an early start. Jennie was a vocational rehabilitation counselor in a non-profit organization called, Action for the Handicapped, in Pendleton, Oregon. She had 125 mentally ill, emotionally disturbed and physically handicapped clients who loved her to death and who depended on her to make their everyday lives as normal as possible. Besides her counseling sessions each day in the organization’s sheltered workshop facility on a hill overlooking the city of Pendleton, Jennie also was the counselor for a second sheltered workshop on the grounds of the Eastern Oregon State Hospital, two handicapped group homes, and an activity center in Walla Walla, Washington that she traveled to every Monday.

On her way home, Jennie stopped at a deli on Main Street and purchased a package of eight Teriyaki beef sticks for her trip. She loved the juicy, meaty and tangy beef sticks—and so did her cat, Max—and she ate them as snacks so she would not have to stop to eat as she drove. Jennie loved to drive and her next trip to visit her dad, Carroll, who lived in San Jose, California, was going to be about 850 miles driving leisurely through the Steen’s Desert Mountain Wilderness in Eastern Oregon.

She loved driving in the desert ever since she had grown up in Blythe, California a small town on the edge of the always fiercely, hot Death Valley, in a town where barely 200 people lived and where her father worked as a handyman for the U.S. Gypsum Company. He got the job after the end of World War II, when, like many other veterans, he traveled around the United States working at various construction sites which sprung up during the post war building boom. Her mother, Ruth, had died of liver cancer only two years before around the time she got her first job out of college and her father now was all alone with his grief. She knew her father needed and wanted her company after his loving wife of 25 years had passed away, and so as often as she could, she traveled down to San Jose to stay with him for a few days.

Jennie arrived at her home