Stark Tales - An Anthology

In 1961, Thomas Berg visits his family's ancestral home in Norway to finalize his late uncle's estate. Situated at the base of Norway's Northernmost mountain, Mt. Jeghorerdet, the centuries-old town of Gammel is where Thomas Discovers Freake and Monter's Emporium on a whim while looking for souvenirs.

It is there he meets Jonas Freake and gets caught in a cat-and-mouse game between Jonas and his nemesis, Vincent Demonico. At this point, Thomas is sent back in time trapped in a magical clock shop with Jonas's prized possessions - the timeflies - in order to keep them from Demonico.

While on a camping trip in 1921, four friends find Thomas in his clock shop and accidentally let the timeflies escape into the world causing havoc to all they encounter.

This is an adventure spanning three centuries with the friends as they search for the timepiece that will send the timeflies back to Thomas and his shop and ultimately send the clock shop back to Norway and Jonas Freake.

The Greater Canton Writer's Guild was founded in 1964 for beginning and professional writers for purposes of learning, discussion and mutual support. It includes persons of diverse skills who share a common committment to the craft of writing.

Caroline Totten, one of the charter members of the Greater Canton Writers' Guild, was also the founding member and former director of the Mid-West Writer's Conference which operated out of Kent Stark Campus in Canton, Ohio for forty years.