When a young mortician's personal life and mental health are more taboo and disturbing than his occupation, the law is short to follow. Our story, told through the first-person perspective of a young and unreliable protagonist and narrator, Merrill Crowley, 27, foregoes one life-altering tragedy after another. Existing in a cold and merciless world that abandoned him, and one whose God constantly torments and ignores him when he desperately seeks refuge, a new and different salvation finds him, not in the way he expected, but not before digging himself into a hole he can't climb back out of. Accompanying him in avoiding the law, who is hot on his tail, his conscience takes shape in the form of a just as witty and vivid character, his imaginary friend and doppelganger, Ritz. Nearly escaping the law, and drowning from his own psyche, the struggle to keep his secrets small seem to pile up on him. But with the motivation of a newfound purpose, striving to be one with his personal salvation, exceeds that of self-annihilation. Will he reach his personal heaven before his sins catch up with him, or will he succumb to a delusional sadness that has plagued him from the beginning of his journey?...
A psychological thriller tale told through a grieving narrator who plants and buries his truths instead of laying them to rest.
A psychological thriller tale told through a grieving narrator who plants and buries his truths instead of laying them to rest.
Who are you, when no one's watching?