Praise for …
The Blue Umbrella
“As a novelist, Mason has it all: vivid and convincing characterization; engaging dialogue; absorbing and unpredictable plotting with an underpinning of serious concerns; humor which entertains without distracting one from the narrative; and above all, a fine writing style.… It’s no exaggeration, in my view, to call this book a classic for fantasy lovers of all ages.”
David F. Dawes, journalist and reviewer at www.canadianchristianity.com
“I’ve loved all of Mike Mason’s writings—his imaginative short stories, his thoughtful essays on vital topics like marriage, children, and joy. Now, here’s another side of Mason—The Blue Umbrella begins a series of wild and wonderful novels where invention truly takes flight. Here fancied possibilities turn real in characters and events whose dramatic turns of action are anchored in a real place, Five Corners, where Porter’s General Store still opens its doors. Reading this magical work makes me wish for my own blue umbrella, makes me hope that this series will join others in the minds of readers who loved Madeleine L’Engle’s sci-fi writings. As L’Engle herself insisted, this kind of fiction is not just for children. It’s for people. People like you!”
Luci Shaw, author of The Crime of Living Cautiously and writer-in-residence at Regent College
Other fiction by Mike Mason
The Furniture of Heaven
The Blue Umbrella
THE VIOLET FLASH
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This story is a work of fiction. All characters and events are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is coincidental.
Revelation 21:1 quote is taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica, Inc™. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com.
LCCN 2010942523
ISBN 978-1-4347-6525-3
eISBN 978-1-4347-0369-9
© 2011 Mike Mason
Published in association with the literary agency of Jan P. Dennis, 19350 Glen Hollow Circle, Monument, CO 80132.
The Team: John Blase, Jamie Chavez, Amy Kiechlin Konyndyk, Sarah Schultz, Renada Arens, and Karen Athen
Cover Illustrator: Connie Gabbert Design and Illustration
First Edition 2011
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About The Violet Flash: A Novel
There’s a rip in the blue umbrella, and time—and Chelsea—are slipping through! One moment she was there, the next moment she was not, and Ches Cholmondeley was watching when it happened. And he learns of other mysterious goings-on: for three days in a row the world’s atomic clocks have lost a second, resulting in bizarre accidents ranging from dropped casseroles to plane crashes. Are these events related? What’s a brother to do? Figure out a way to get his sister back, of course. In search of answers, Ches befriends the local clockmaker, Myron Stinchcombe, who knows a lot about time, and seeks out Sky Porter, who knows a lot about, well, everything. But time is running out. And Ches is torn, knowing that the very deed that can save the world might also keep his sister from ever returning to it.
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