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I am honored to have been given this ARC of John Michael Alaia’s soon-to-be-published novelette. Thank you for this opportunity. We’ve all got basements. Some are pretty scary. I’ve got a basement. Most of the time, it takes some time and some navigation to find a basement. Walking through front door, maybe a hallway, a few steps down. JMA skips all of this and drops you right into the narrator’s basement and it is absolutely scary. Scary because it’s dark, it’s gruesome but most of all, because it’s familiar? In less than an hour of your time, JMA will launch you into a pit of despair and, for some, six inches from the mirror.