title: The River Above: and Other Strange Stories
author:  Gregory Adams 
description: Witty, surreal tales of control and lack of it, power and its discontents, written in colorful prose that moves you along like a car on a rollercoaster!<br />Leela Corman,creator of <i>Unterzakhn</i>and<i>Yahrzeit</i><br /><br />Here's a true story-Gregory once gave me a very funny manuscript he'd written. I have read it forinspiration roughly once a year for ten or so years. <i>And that is his unpublished stuff.</i> What you are about to read ismuch, much better.<br />Sean Baptiste,Co-creator of<span> </span><i>Let's Quip</i>
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  KATHLEEN E.  
  WOODIWISS
  
  PETALS ON THE RIVER
  
  
  To my grandson, Seth Alexander Woodiwiss, who  
  was the inspiration for the young boy in this book.  
  Seth is so engaging and delightful to be around, I  
  couldn’t help but want to convey those kind of  
  characteristics in Andrew.  
  I hope I was successful.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  Chapters  
  
  
  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,  
  
  
  11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,  
  
  
  21, 22, 23, 24, 25
  
  
  Epilogue
  
  
  About the Author
  
  
  Praise and Acclaim
  
  
  Other Books by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
  
  
  Copyright
  
  
  About the Publisher
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHAPTER 1
  
  
  Newportes Newes, Virginia  
  
  
  April 25, 1747
  
  The London Pride chafed against the quay as the currents of a rising
  nor’easter slowly rocked the vessel on her cables. Close above her mastheads,
  errant clouds tumbled in darkening portent of an advancing storm. Gulls
  swooped in and out of the ship’s rigging, lending their raucous cries to the
  rattle of chains as a double file of thin, ragged convicts stu