DRIFT - Short Stories Volume 1

Somewhere between the living and the dead, there is a man with no body of his own. He has no say in when he arrives, whose life he wakes inside, or what he is required to do once he gets there. He carries the memories of every person he has ever inhabited — centuries of grief, love, violence, and ordinary human decency — and he uses them the way a locksmith uses keys: quietly, and without being seen. Volume One spans eight centuries and five lives. A widower alone at his dead wife's desk at two in the morning. A teenager growing up in war torn Iraq. A junior auditor in London the week the financial world collapsed. A Mongolian farmer that is torn between treasure and family. A young ranch hand smitten with a new arrival in a sleepy western town. Each story stands alone. Each has its own world, its own register, its own stakes. What runs beneath all of them — quietly, without announcement — is a single consciousness trying to do something useful inside lives that are not his, in service of a force he does not trust, for a reason he cannot yet prove. This is not horror through spectacle. It is horror through consequence. The darkness here is not in what arrives — it is in what has already been decided, long before the first page.