John Charles Miller

Juice John Charles Miller

Lemuel Shattuck Mercer, an angry and proud man, wants to make certain that he is properly buried when he dies. He requires a fancy casket, not a pine wood coffin as most of the people in Gumbo Hollow, Missouri are content with. Upon death, he believes that he has been buried alive. Escaping his casket by means of a specially-made opening, he crawls to land surface. Years have passed, however he does not know this. Lem is now something else. Once he accepts this as reality, he finds himself alone. If years have passed, why is he alive? Something has revived him and restored his body. Eventually, he finds the cause, and begins to bring other dead people of the town to life. The process of life-restoration has also changed him. No longer angry, he finds his new self to be better than the old one. Yet, his life and those he has restored are threatened by activities in Gumbo Hollow. The struggle against these forces results in victory for his assailants, or does it?