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KEITH DUROCHER, Author

                         Home of the Torn World Trilogy

A splatterpunk/grimdark tale of violence and gore
"For so long, He has had no thoughts, only instinct. While he is It, feels with no context or understanding, feeding because it must. It corrupts and it destroys and it creates; bleeding its sickness into all it can touch. It has no concept of what it wreaks upon life, the massive and twisted monstrosities warped by its influence.

It is the entropy of malevolence, spreading slowly, inexorably forward. Like ink spilled from an eternal bottle, it has forever to complete its unclean working on this world. One by one, it consumes all the lives that it can touch.

Then, like a crack in a mirror, a snap in the perfection of its imperfection, it absorbs something new, yet immediately familiar- a sentient mind with thoughts and memories and emotions. It feels as it has always felt, but for the first time in thousands of years it understands what the feeling means.


Excerpt from Bones Before Fortune"