The Pain Eater

"Playful and painful and surreally real, and great fun to read."

-Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World

Some wounds are too deep to ever heal.

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.