<p>"Playful and painful and surreally real, and great fun to read."</p><p> </p><p><strong>-Brian Evenson, author of <em>Song for the Unraveling of the World</em></strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Some wounds are too deep to ever heal.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Two brothers from Michigan are reunited after the death of their father. They''ve never been close, but now they have to live together-and it gets more difficult when one discovers a strange creature, vomited from the body of a dead cat. A creature that eats human pain. It feels good: too good. Soon he wants to hurt himself more, just so the pain can be taken away. But the more the creature becomes a part of his life, the more he damages everything around him.</p><p><br></p>