The Suffering

<p><strong><u>As Seen in </u><em><u>Scream Magazine</u></em></strong></p><p><strong>Mayer's dark theme touches on the state of human brokenness and how it can fracture our relationships our loves and ourselves. -<em>Authors Reading</em></strong></p><p>Twenty-year-old Billy Johnson is afflicted by the hollowness.</p><p>All reason is lost when it has him in its grip pushing him towards acts of unspeakable cruelty.. When a hiking accident leaves him injured on an isolated mountain facing imminent death Billy looks for meaning in his tragic life. The hollowness a malevolent force that consumes him is responsible for everything good in his life: a relationship with his father his beloved younger brother Henry and the first woman to love him Lisa.</p><p>At the peak of despair on the cusp of death he encounters a strange old man who is eerily familiar. Is this Billy's last chance to redeem his troubled life and rid himself of the hollowness?</p>