Ghost In The Park
GENRE
SCI-FI
Core Theme
OVERCOMING GRIEF
TIME PERIOD
Contemporary
COMPARABLE TITLES
GHOST (1990), A GHOST STORY (2017)
CHARACTER LIST
β’ SAMI: MID 20'S. GRAPHIC DESIGNER, WIDOWER, DEPRESSED.
β’ LIS - EARLY 20'S, KIND, HARDWORKING, LOVE INTEREST
β’ AMBER - EARLY 20'S, ANXIOUS, DECEASED WIFE
β’ NOAH - PHYSICIST, QUIRKY, ENGAGING, NARRATIVE DRIVER
Logline
In the littlest park in a tiny corner of Staten Island, New York, realities will collide. Unintended consequences from events will alter lives. One to uncover a secret, another to confess, and the last to save a love.
Target Audiences
Age: 18-34,13-17,35-54,55+
Target Gender: Universal
Setting
Staten Island, New York
Based on a True Story
No
Publishing Details
Status: Yes: self-published
Publisher: iUniverse
Year Published: 2016
Starting Description
The story begins when Sami, mid 20's has just lost his wife Amber to an accident. He is distraught over the fact that they fought just before she was killed. He sits on the bench in the park where his wife would wait for him and is trying to get his life back on track.
Ending Description
The story explores the themes of life, death, existence, spirituality, love, and lust, while connecting all the dots to make up for moments of excitement, shock, and fear. Will Sami be able to uncover the secret?
Group Specific
Information not completed
Hard Copy Available
No
ISBN
ISBN-13: 978-1491795705
Mature Audience Themes
Information not completed
Plot - Other Elements
Twist
Plot - Premise
Internal Journey/Rebirth
Main Character Details
Name: Sami Bell
Age: Mid 20's
Gender: Male
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Romantic
Additional Character Details
Name: Amber Bell
Age: Early 20's
Gender: Female
Role: Emotional
Key Traits: Complex
Additional Character Details
Name: Dr. Noah Braxton
Age: 30's
Gender: Male
Role: logical
Key Traits: Adventurous,Visionary
Additional Character Details
Name: Adler Beaumont
Age: 30's
Gender: Male
Role: sidekick
Key Traits: Complex,Aggressive
Brief
Worlds intersect when a particle physicist is granted access to the full power of a military ship. What he doesn't account for is what comes next. The weight of his actions changes the world view of his Staten Island neighbors and opens up a the possibility for love to extend beyond the grave.
What We Liked
- The story has an interesting take on grief and loss with a twist of science fiction. There is an effort to expand the multi-reality theory to cover those that have died, and in this case bring them back across the folds into our reality. Grieving loved ones are given an unintended second chance to communicate with the dead, who seemed to have moved on to another realm yet to be explored.
- Film seems to be the more natural fit for this narrative. A simple three act structure would be punctuated by the two experiments that link the dead back to the living and provide the conflict necessary to propel the A plot. The denouement could prompt some sort of half resolution to either hint at a second film or posit to the audience that somewhere in the world there are other physicists working on bringing the dead back to our world, and that these two experiments are not the only hope of the protagonist seeing his dead wife again.
- Key points: Overcoming Grief, Science Fiction, New Love, Family Bonds, Hope.
Synopsis
Sami has just lost his wife. They were in their early twenties and had just moved in together in a quaint apartment in Staten Island, New York. Now Sami is strapped with just his brother and his graphic design job at a law firm.
Meanwhile a physicist and his friend/business associate are securing military resources to construct a large scale experiment focused on ""ghost particles.""
Over the course of two experiments, the physicist successfully creates a field that connects our reality to another--and allows for the living to come into contact with their deceased loved ones.
Unbeknownst to this fact, Sami runs into his deceased wife and breaks down with tears of joy. When the first experiment ends he is crushed. Already struggling to go on with his widower life, he is more conflicted than ever about shutting the door on his past relationship.
The second experiment brings an air of chaos into the equation. As the energy field is created, the physicist is sucked into another reality wherein which he has recently died. He speaks to his business partner and comes to the realization that his experiment was even more successful than he thought. When he returns, he notes the power of his creation and warns his business partner about moving forward with their research.
Sami meets Amber for the second time, but something is off. It turns out she is not the same Amber he was once married to, but instead a different Amber from a different (reality? it is unclear). The two part ways and the portal made by the second experiment is closed forever.
For a brief moment, we are given a glimpse into another reality where the second Amber (who just spoke with our protagonist) lives with her own version of Sami. The two are fighting, but make up after Amber tells him things that he had only told his deceased grandfather.