This is the first chapter of our prose novel HUNGRY GHOSTS. I, Park, am the person reading it out loud. We'll get back to our Road Trip episodes again at some point, but for now, I learned from working with the first chapters of our other two books that these are too long to embed (if that's the proper term) into a page of our website... And I didn't want to divide it in half... so here it is as an episode of our podcast.

It's our hope that hearing the first chapter read aloud will pique people's interest and make them want to read the whole book.

https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Ghosts-Park-Cooper-ebook/dp/B0D2FMF84Z

So, there's the link for the whole book. If you have Kindle Unlimited, it's already FREE for people who subscribe to that!

Overview:

Takeshi Ito wakes up with bandages over his eyes, because slashing at Takeshi’s eyes was the only way his opponents could stop the battle-maddened teenaged swordsman his comrades had nicknamed “the little god of death.” When the bandages come off, Takeshi can still see– but he keeps finding out strange things about the monk who saved him. Takeshi eventually realizes that the man who’d taken the name of Eisai when he tried to become a monk is really the great samurai Isogai Heidazaemon Taketsura, the wielder of the incredible sword Lightning-on-the-Water.

But will even Taketsura be able to solve the problem of the oni curse that Takeshi’s accidentally stumbled into before someone gets killed during a fit of bloodlust– someone like Kiyoko, the cute orphan girl who joins the two swordsmen as they roam Japan looking for a way to cure Takeshi…?

“In the prose novel HUNGRY GHOSTS, a spine-chilling tale of supernatural horror, a group of unsuspecting individuals becomes entangled in a sinister curse. Drawn together by their shared pasts and nightmarish encounters, they must confront their deepest fears and battle the insatiable hunger of malevolent spirits. As the boundaries between the living and the dead blur, these desperate souls will be tested to their limits in a gripping fight for their very lives. Will they conquer the ghosts that haunt them, or will they succumb to the all-consuming darkness? Find out in this hauntingly addictive thrill ride. The authors (Barb Lien Cooper & Park Cooper) crafted a thematically rich yet breezy read that entertains and inspires.”
–Michael Stinson, writer, BITEMARK