Sometimes A Skeleton

by Bryce Raffle

It’s 1993, and Michael Snow just wants it all to end. He feels detached, as if nothing has any consequence. But when he tries to hang himself in the bedroom he shares with his teenage sister, his near-death experience changes everything. His parents are constantly fighting, his sister is rebelling, and school is a nightmare. Yet even with everything that’s going on around him, Michael begins to wonder if maybe there’s more to this crazy life after all. Maybe there is something worth living for.

Written in just three days during a literary marathon, the story has been only lightly edited in order to preserve the frenetic style derived from the frenzied three-day blur. A story about love, loss, and learning to survive suburbia in the early 90′s.

78 pages, ebook

Published August 7, 2016

About the author

Bryce Raffle is a Canadian fiction writer living in beautiful British Columbia. He studied English at the University of Manitoba, where he received a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in History. He also received the Dallas Taylor Memorial Prize for academic excellence in Creative Writing. He later studied Sound Design for Visual Media at Vancouver Film School, and worked on a number of films and video game projects.

Most recently, he worked on Ironclad Games' Sins of a Dark Age, working as both sound designer and lead writer.

He is currently working on his debut novel, which combines the best of steampunk, horror, and adventure. Dead London is his first novel and the first in The Penny Dreadful series.