Free through January 14, 2018 with coupon code ZE68J: "Eternal Quest" short story

On its surface, this speculative fiction short story (7,800 words) deals with one man's obsessive quest for knowledge and the devastating price he must pay for the knowledge he ultimately acquires. Beneath the surface, this story is about deep friendships complicated by unrequited love, split loyalties, the interplay of id, ego and superego, and existentialist lessons learned too late in life.

This is one of my earliest short stories, written when I was a writing major at Queens College in the...