The Mourning Man: Volume One

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Jim Rivers dies for a living, and on the other side a woman has spent six years waiting to get her hands on him.

He walks the dying across. Room 14 at St. Agnes, the VA ward on Gold Avenue, a ninety-seven-year-old who asked for him by name. Then he opens a vein, and for a few seconds he is in a yellow kitchen with cherries on the oilcloth and a woman who says come here and be early. She has waited alone at that table. She starts it. She sets the pace, and it is fast, and it is hers. She turns his wrists over and puts her mouth where the razor went.

Every trip, less of the kitchen is left. The window is gone. Then the sink. Something is eating her house, and Jim keeps dying to get back before it finishes.

Five tales of desire and the wound:

The Mourning Man, a novella. A dead boy has spent fifteen years building a room for the man who tortured him.
The Farm. Jim donates himself to a body farm, and the dead wake up with him.
Lenore. The Jeep dies in front of an opera house at ten after noon, and the opera house is open.
Rest Area, One Mile. 1998. Abigail is nineteen, alone on US 36 with a mixtape and four hundred dollars, and she never comes home.
The Alamogordo Incident, 1952. A sealed desert lab, a man in a black suit who never raises his voice, and the scientist who crosses the room to him on her own.

For readers of Clive Barker's Books of Blood who want the love story to hurt as much as the knife.

What you get: the full book as EPUB (for Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, any reader app) and a PDF. About 51,000 words. DRM-free.

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