Henry Jim

von Tim Bryant

228 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Henry James Benefit is a quiet schoolteacher, a decent man, and the kind of person people trust. He lives carefully now-carefully with his habits, carefully with his memories, carefully with the parts of himself he does not want to examine too closely.Then the dreams begin again.In them, there is a pond. A trunk. Mud. Headlights sweeping across darkness. And a terrible, shapeless certainty that somewhere in the lost hours of his own life, he did something he cannot bear to remember.When the local pond is drained to make way for new development, Henry's private dread takes on a life outside his sleep. What first feels like guilt becomes something heavier, stranger, and more intimate. As whispers from an old blackout night resurface and the line between dream and memory begins to fray, Henry is forced to confront the possibility that the worst thing haunting him may not be what he did-but what he failed to do.Henry Jim is a dark Southern novel of buried memory, moral dread, and the quiet horror of living beside what you cannot fully know about yourself. Dreamlike, grounded, and deeply unsettling, it lingers in the place where guilt, grace, and truth refuse to separate.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798251178319
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 12.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published