Duality

by Dan Stull

Stephen is lost. He has his alcohol and his anger. But he is lost. After a run-in with a bartender and a police officer, Stephen is sentenced to serious jail time. After release, and finally sober, he begins the long and arduous journey back home, back to his childhood, and to the heart of not only his nightmare but his family’s as well. Haunted by a past that doesn’t make any sense, paved over by countless lies that it didn’t happen the way they all remembered, Stephen and his siblings go home only to realize that it doesn’t feel like a day has passed. And through the complications between siblings, and terrifying experiences resurfacing, the past breaks through into the present and Stephen is sent on a journey of the mind and soul to confront his demons and find out what happened when he was a kid, where his mom disappeared to, and whether or not the events that haunted the house were real or the fabrication of a child’s mind. Time moves one way. But what if it didn’t? What monsters might be hiding in the in-between? And to what extent will our minds go to keep us sane and safe?

327 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 27, 2020