“Brian James Freeman’s creativity as a writer is an internal world of elements and influences that can never be duplicated by anyone else…not in the past, not in the present, and not in the future.”
— From the introduction by bestselling author Robert McCammon

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This collection by Brian James Freeman features characters grappling with changing (and often crumbling) worlds. These men and women are nearing their breaking points, and what happens after they pass the point of no return could be truly horrific:

• A desperate man will do just about anything to find “A Cure for the Sickness” for his daughter before it’s too late….

• Two men waiting in a stolen camper are employed by a mysterious company that specializes in “Doing Dirty Work,” and they have their eyes set on the twin girls whose parents aren’t paying attention to the threats all around them…

• The “Fireflies” of his youth are long gone, but he’s about to learn that’s just part of the price we pay for isolating ourselves from the realities of the outside world…

• In “Self-Improvement and the Zombie Apocalypse,” the world is dying and a man wants to become the better person he always hoped to be, but is it too late to rectify all of his old habits?

• When a peculiar saleswoman brings a proposal that isn’t quite what an antisocial property owner is expecting, he must contend with “An Unusual Proposition for a Mountain Man.”

• A man and his son trek into the woods on the hottest day of the year to carry out the necessary but unpleasant task of “Burying Little Annie.”

These haunting stories show why Publishers Weekly called Brian James Freeman’s writing “skillfully composed prose” and Stewart O’Nan said Freeman’s writing has “great velocity and impact.

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Publication History:
Publication History:
• Lividian Publications [Private Printing]
Signed Limited Edition Hardcover
Signed Lettered Edition Hardcover
Publication Date: Summer 2024