Forensic Black

by David Freeman

How black, is black …?...How dark, is dark …?... How empty, is empty …? … Black enough to surround someone in a blanket of insecurity. Dark enough to envelope behavior that mirrors the expression of the thing living inside the padded cell scraping its molded chains against decayed cement. And, empty enough to bleed dry any hope of recovering, and maybe the will of actually wanting to …
Aubrey Dehnem wavers through life unnoticed. That is, until that one fateful day in September when his page begins to flutter – turning inward – and he begins to do everything the voice coming from the padded cell tells him to …

748 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 18, 2014

About the author

David Freeman is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and journalist who studied playwriting and dramatic literature at the Yale Drama School and currently teaches screenwriting seminars in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Judith Gingold.

Freeman wrote the last draft for Alfred Hitchcock's final project, The Short Night, a projected spy thriller which was never produced due to Hitchcock's failing health. Freeman wrote about his experiences in the 1984 book The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock, which includes his completed screenplay.