The Picnic Table - Softcover

It happened. He’s met her, and she is it. She’s not merely the one he tells all his buddies about, or the one where he wants to call his mother and entire family. She is...the one. She’s the one. The one that he dreams about, the one he can’t stop talking and thinking about. The one that makes his face warm, the one that makes him hear his racing pulse, pounding heart, and brain overloading from all the processing power it’s devoting merely to thoughts of her. She’s the one he’d actually, and literally, do anything for. She is his soul mate, and the cosmos has been telling him this since the day he first saw her. The problem is...he doesn’t realize it until she’s gone. Kyle comes from a middle-upper class family in the United States, while she is a product of the Soviet Union. He hates high school, but she’s a brilliant astronomy student. He leads the typical life of an eighteen year old, but she has a troubled and mysterious past. They meet in 1990, in the Florida Keys. He is getting lifeguard certified, while she is a new counselor at a summer camp. The world, the universe, and fate were trying to tell him, but he didn’t listen. He let her go, and now, he can’t go on. They met in the Keys, but maybe they’ve met before.

Christopher Chapman is a visual writer. When you read his work, you will feel like you are there, inside the story. You will experience the sights and sounds, and all the feelings of a moment. The conversations are dynamic, real, and within a few pages, you will genuinely begin to know the characters. Christopher Chapman is a licensed attorney in Florida, where he has lived on and off his entire life. He fondly writes of the quirkier, and less known parts of the state, having the reader feel like a local when they dive into his work. He lands the reader into the scenes, to feel the humidity of the tropical air, and visit with characters not often met in fiction. Christopher Chapman has written, produced, and directed feature films, from suspense to love stories. The viewer, or reader, will feel like they are present within the story, and through that experience, will live inside of the world he created.