SUMMARY
of Pride Island

What does it take for one man to relinquish his pride?  Colton’s past is reviewed instantaneously in his mind, during an apparent automobile accident...as he feels himself “sliding off of a slippery time line and into the infinite nebula of forever.”  But is the freak collision on the freeway real, or is it merely an hallucination  caused by the effects of an illegal drug?  In any case, in one critical moment, Colton recalls an entire story—“Pride Island”—which he had finished reading that very day.

You will venture through the riveting story of “Pride Island” as it streaks across Colton’s mind—discovering, before long, that the main character, Pierce, bears an uncanny resemblance to Colton.  From the moment Pierce is awakened out of a fantastic dream by a reverberating BOOM!—“sucked out of his bizarre phantasm, like a paper man on a magazine page being ripped away into a vacuum cleaner hose”—you will find it difficult to walk away until you have read the unique, inimitable conclusion!