Our Precious Moments: a horror story

by Byron Lee Ray, Joseph Paul Haines (Editor), Kahae Machado (Cover Design)

In death, the luckless Walter Dillard finds himself flung back into the haunted hallows of his hometown; a gnarled barren wasteland on some other plain of hellish existance. On his gruesome journey, he must face his horrific past, and battle the deviant inferno of the town itself.

274 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2010

Reviews

[FetidPunkStar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not sure where to place this on my shelf. The closest I can get is somewhere between the novel of "The Exorcist" and Rob Zombies "Devil's Rejects" Blu-Ray. As a first outing by Byron Ray, it holds back no punches and leaves your head swirling and your stomach in knots. "Our Precious Moments" is not Twilight, so if you're switching gears from vampires and wizards, you'll have to focus more on the details of this story rather than if a vampire is going to hump a mortal. The setting is so rich can only be told in rampant flashbacks than can leave you clawing, but the characters and events are dark, graphic and disturbing. It sets up a second book which Byron Ray is calling a "finale" novel; so the mouthful of information about the eerie town of Merrick, Texas stuffed into OPM will hopefully keep the next piece of the story more focused. Some might consider it "splatterpunk" but I think the writer just wanted to give people the creeps, God knows I was throughly disgusted by certain scenes but it evoked an emotional response, so what else can a reader ask for? Read it, because I think you'll pass it along to a twisted friend and keep an eye out for more from this author, I know I will.