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I was proud to be one of the contributors to this outstanding project. Ryan Bracha has shown extraordinary vision in creating something so very different that I just had to jump on board. Twelve very different takes on the same subject, woven artfully together. No one has made fun of the subject matter or treated it with the kind of distain you see in the tabloids on a daily basis. This collection of stories has bite, I dare you to bite back?
Ryan Bracha does a phenomenal job of taking 12 short stories from some of the finest indie talent around the globe and knitting them in to one stellar novel. The rapid decline into the dark lives of the residents of St. David's comes hard and fast. Each mad man tells his tale of how he got there. Then the real fun begins. A pleasure to work with such talent. Read it with the lights on.
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The premise of the book is admirably ambitious. Simply put, take twelve writers (the mad men) and get each to produce a short story on how they arrived in a mental institution, then weave these individual tales into an overall narrative. My main concern initially was that the stories would be too similar. How many ways are there to end up in such a place. Thankfully at least twelve seems to be the answer as there is no significant overlap between the tales of woe, gore, and deviancy. Similarly,
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