title: A Ghost Of A Chance
author:  Evelyn Klebert 
description: Evelyn Klebert (1965 to present) is an author in the grand old city of New Orleans. She's written fifteen acclaimed books: nine paranormal novels, four collections of supernatural short stories, and two esoteric poetry collections. She is an avid reader and student of esoteric studies intent on examining the "big questions" in life as are her characters. One of her latest novels <i>Treading on Borrowed Time</i> is a love story set in New Orleans which explores the issue of past lives, karmic obligations, as well as other dimensional beings. Her latest book, <i>The Hotel Mandolin</i>, is the second installment of a new series entitled <i>The Breslin Family Tales of the Supernatural.<br /> </i><br /> For more information visit her website at evelynklebert.net
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  [Dedication](part0003.html#dedication)
  
  
  
  
  
  This one is for two strong women:
  
  
  
  
  
  Joan Joffe Hall and Shirley Woodka
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Ghost of a Chance](part0003.html#epigraph)
  
  
  
  
  
  You see a man
  
  
  
  
  
  trying to think.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  You want to say
  
  
  
  
  
  to everything:
  
  
  
  
  
  Keep off! Give him room!
  
  
  
  
  
  But you only watch,
  
  
  
  
  
  terrified
  
  
  
  
  
  the old consolations
  
  
  
  
  
  will get him at last
  
  
  
  
  
  like a fish
  
  
  
  
  
  half-dead from flopping
  
  
  
  
  
  and almost crawling
  
  
  
  
  
  across the shingle,
  
  
  
  
  
  almost breathing
  
  
  
  
  
  the raw, agonizing
  
  
  
  
  
  air
  
  
  
  
  
  till a wave
  
  
  
  
  
  pulls it back blind into the triumphant
  
  
  
  
  
  sea.
  
  
  
  
  
  —Adrienne Rich
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Dedication](part0001.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Ghost of a Chance](part0002.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Prologue: Rope-Skipping Girl](part0004.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Gualtiero Agnello](part0005.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Part I: Art and Service](part0006.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0007.ht