Everyone Goes Outside Eventually: a novella

THEY CAN’T HURT YOU.

A skeleton, hundreds of feet tall, peers in through the window, silently watching office workers go about their day. A council of ghostly, cloaked figures hover above a cornfield, unmoving and unmoved.

It’s been nearly fifty years since the Leviathans came, sending the world into a mass panic. Monsters shrouded in mystery roam through city streets. Watching. Waiting.

Pete Turner-Pryce has grown up with these creatures. To him, the Leviathans are little more than background noise. Everyone knows they can’t hurt you. They can’t even touch you. Pete is more focused on the fact that he has disappointed his girlfriend yet again. That he doesn’t see a way out from under his grandparents’ thumb. But when he wakes up in the hospital after an accident, Pete finds himself in an in-between place where no one can see or touch him.

No one human, that is.

The Leviathans can see him.

The Leviathans can touch him.

And the Leviathans are very, very hungry.

Now, dogged by monsters and desperate for a safe haven, Pete discovers an unexpected ally–someone who may know a way back. With the window to return to the real world closing, Pete must fight to reclaim his life before the chance slips through his fingers forever.