Author Reading: Beyond Sight by Lâle Davidson

Join author Lale Davidson for a reading from her work Beyond Sight, a paranormal tale set in Saratoga Springs.

The reading is open to all ages and is covered by admission to the museum. Children 12 and under and National Bottle Museum Members receive free entry.

About Beyond Sight

Julie Sykes, a young woman with long-repressed supernatural powers, is inexplicably drawn to the enigmatic Damian Quinn, but when a malignant spirit possesses him, she must unlock her powers to save him.

It all begins innocently enough when Julie and Damian explore an abandoned Victorian house built by a wealthy black farming family during the Gilded Age. Now slated for suburban renewal, the house mysteriously resists demolition.

Little do Julie and Damian know that their actions will awaken vengeful spirits and set off a chain of events with dire consequences…

About Lâle Davidson

Lâle Davidson is a Distinguished Professor who has taught writing for 27 years at a community college where she recently received the Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities (2018).

Her stories have appeared in The North American Review, Eclectica, and Gone Lawn among others. She was a finalist for the Franz Kafka Award issued by Doctor T.J. Eckleburgh Review as well as the Black Lawrence Chapbook Contest of 2015 and The Talking Writing Award for humorous writing advice. Her story “The Opal Maker” was named top fifty of 2015 very short fiction publications by Wigleaf.

P. S. Her first name is pronounced “lolly” more or less and is Turkish for tulip. She’s not Turkish. In fact, her ancestors on both sides came to America over 300 years ago. But her parents took the family all over the world and lived in Turkey for three years before she was born.