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Scarecrow Has a Gun

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Scarecrow Has a Gun

By: Michael Paul Kozlowsky
Narrated by: David Doersch
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Never trust other people's memories, and watch out for your own.

Sean Whittlesea was there when his wife was murdered. He saw the light leave her eyes. He held her dead body in his arms. He knows he wept, but he cannot recollect a single other detail. Tormented by the tragedy, Sean relives the horror over and over again. As he struggles to recall what really happened, his imagination serves up an endless chain of scenarios. The truth, however, remains hidden in the vault of his memory, and the key is nowhere to be found.

Nearly two decades later, Sean, now remarried and a father of two, wins a bizarre contest hosted by his eccentric boss. The prize is the Memory Palace, a state-of-the-art black box that purportedly allows its possessor to relive every moment he has ever experienced, playing out all the memories on a screen.

While the small machine at first appears to be the answer to the mystery surrounding the death of his wife, it instead upends Sean’s life. He pushes his family further and further away as the Memory Palace forces him to confront harsh realities and difficult questions that he lacks the strength to face or answer. Spiraling downward, Sean encounters increasingly harrowing challenges that force him to realize that his memory is not the only thing at stake. To recover the truth about his past, Sean must fight for his very life.

©2022 Michael Paul Kozlowsky (P)2022 Imbrifex Books
Contemporary Domestic Thrillers Fantasy Fiction Psychological Suspense Marriage Exciting Paranormal
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"With writing that's both sharp and dense, Michael Paul Kozlowsky's Scarecrow Has A Gun is a labyrinthine mystery that feels as if David Cronenberg and Don DeLillo had collaborated on a Philip K. Dick adaptation. It's a gut-punch meditation on the way our brains process mediation, memory, trauma, and grief." (Tex Gresham, author of Sunflower, Heck, Texas, and This Is Strange June)

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Great premise, but I feel that more could have been done with it

The theme of plumbing the memory and finding that our memories are not what we remember is a fascinating one, and those ideas are well presented here. I feel like the story did get a little monotonous toward the middle, and the climax, though interesting, felt slightly rushed. Fans of The Twilight Zone will definitely appreciate this piece. While I’m not sure I’d want to read it again, I’m happy I did read it, and enjoyed the majority of the ride.

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