Return of the Calico Kids
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The adventure of a lifetime continues.
Summer, 1984. A mystery unfolds in the riverside town of Calico, Oregon, including the apparent suicide of a law enforcement officer, the sudden appearance of shadowy operatives, and a mothballed government project starting up again.
When Eren returns to town, she enlists a group of friends into a dangerous mission which will change them forever.
Banding together to rescue a team of interdimensional travelers from Eren's world, a gang of misfit teens must test their mettle against phantoms, shape-changing predators, and government agents.
From Todd Downing, author of The Parish, Sakuru, and the Airship Daedalus pulp adventure series, comes the follow-up to Calico Kids, his love letter to retro-'80s science fiction and horror in the vein of Stranger Things and The Babysitter. equal parts John Hughes and John Carpenter, Return of the Calico Kids is an adventure story from a different place and time, full of mystery, thrills, and a bit of teenage romance.
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Todd Downing is the primary author and designer of over fifty roleplaying titles, including Arrowflight, RADZ, Airship Daedalus, and the official Red Dwarf RPG. A fixture in the Seattle indie film community, he is the co-creator of the superhero-comedy webseries The Collectibles, and the screenwriter behind The Parish and Ordinary Angels (which he also directed). His first feature film, a supernatural thriller entitled Project, was included in a PBS young directors series in 1986. He has written for stage, screen, comics, audiodrama, short-form and long-form, interactive and narrative, in a career spanning three decades. The father of two adult children, Downing spent several years in the videogame industry, working on games such as Spider for the Playstation, Allegiance for the PC, and Casino Empire. He also creates book covers and marketing art for fellow authors and corporate clients, and has done voiceover work for Microsoft and the Seattle Seahawks Pro Shop.
Widowed to cancer in 2005, Downing remarried in 2009 and currently enjoys an empty nest in Port Orchard, Washington, with his wife and three rescue cats. Fortunately, he has an office with a door that closes.
