Sorrow's Forest

Sorrow’s Forest teems with beasts, some ugly, some beautiful, all unnatural. A ban restricts travel beneath her branches, existing for as long as Lakeview Township has, and most who disobey do not return.

To win a bet, twelve-year-old Mackie King enters the forest, and in its depths, he discovers a boy-like devil. Then he steals him from the...

There’s a hole in Mackie King’s memories. It’s ugly and sore, like a wound gone septic.

He’s overwhelmed with the anxiety that he’s doomed to be like his father, memories riddled with gaps where important people and places used to live until he dies, small and alone, either strapped to a hospital bed or wandering the wilds of Lakeview’s forest,...