A truly unique novella that combines golden-age noir with modern sci-fi and somehow becomes a meditation on aging-Millennial malaise and the creative process. Imagine The Big Sleep meets Sliders meets How Should a Person Be. Surprising at every turn.
"Jim Dougherty lives the kind of unsatisfied life familiar to many a middle-aged millennial. He’s stuck in a dead-end job at a tired old casino, haunted by regrets of unfulfilled childhood potential and going nowhere—slow. Every day it seems the life he was meant to live becomes a little further out of reach. But when the strangely familiar stranger appears at his pre-dawn blackjack table with a new perspective on the mysteries of a shared past and offering the possibility of true success, Jim learns that living his best life has a price he may not be willing—or able—to pay. For Jim Dougherty, the road not taken turns out to be a dangerous one."
97 pages, trade paperback. Published by new Portland press, Korza Books.