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On sabbatical in the Pacific Northwest, Caden Cole learns of his best friend's murder and becomes fixated on finding Ben Dunn's killers. Using his dead friend's journal entries on his thumb drive, Caden discovers Ben worked on a secretive project that plans to use grave sites as voting booths to shape future presidential elections. The story takes place primarily in two Southern cemeteries where a medium interviews dead Confederate soldiers and their sons as future voters. Caden soon realizes his investigation is putting him and his new friends in grave danger.
About the author
Bill Smith is an emeritus professor of English at Western Washington University, where he taught intro to college writing, technical writing, disability studies, and the horror film. He also taught full-time at four other universities, two of them in the South. Although, he edited a refereed journal, co-authored college textbooks and numerous academic articles, he now writes only fiction. His first short story, "Tellin' Tales," appears under "Southern Voice" in Deep South Magazine (2021).
Having grown up in Jacksonville, N.C., he's writing a collection of coastal Carolina short stories, hoping to finish before he becomes organic soil. The VD Project is his response to the Covid pandemic.
