Rising Stars: Visitations

Rising Stars is the story of the Pederson Specials, a group of 113 people
empowered by a single event.
In the late Sixties a fireball struck the town
of Pederson, Illnois granting fantastic powers to the 113 children who were in
utero at the time of impact. They grew up as the world watched. Labeled the
"Specials" by the Media, their powers were monitored and catalogued by the
United States Government. Public perception of them changed often. Were they
the future of mankind? A scourge? A random occurrence? Heroes? Villains? Role
models or simply caricatures? What would be their impact on culture and society?
They were a waried as kids and adults ever are; some were more powerful, some
less. As adults they became many things: a policeman, a corporate symbol, a
singer, an assassin, a writer, a painter, a thief, a preacher. Some found
celebrity, some notoriety, while others simply went to work and raised families
like everyone else. But they all carried inside them a seed of something great.
Something special. Something that made them stars.
As their epic stories
unfolded, there were other stories as well...of their lives and the lives of
those around them. This book is about those stories. Collected here are the
short stories about the Specials, a bit about their beginnings, a bit about
their middles and just a little bit about their end.