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Sustenance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 22 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In a town where nothing changes, something has.
When Kenny stumbles upon a group of violet-skinned strangers camping behind his father's Iowa farm, he assumes they're nudists, cultists-maybe both. What he doesn't expect is a crashed ship, a dead shaman, or the realization that they're not from around here. Not this county. Not this planet.
As the visitors-non-verbal, sexless, yet strangely human-begin integrating into rural rhythms, tensions rise. Secrets surface. Bodies pile. And nothing about gender, law, or language means what it used to.
Sustenance is a novel of quiet horror and speculative contact. Told through dust-choked fields, small-town suspicion, and slow-burn dread, it explores what happens when the aliens aren't monsters-just misunderstood.
For readers who enjoy:
- Literary science fiction
- Atmospheric horror without gore
- Alien contact with philosophical bite
- Midwestern gothic, rural existentialism, or quietly breaking down
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