M. Patrick Furry
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M. Patrick Furry is an author of speculative fiction who explores the unsettling spaces where reality frays. His work creates a unique blend of grounded, character-driven storytelling that focuses on how ordinary people navigate the extraordinary. He likes to think of his work as "Fairytales for adults."
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The Casual Oblivion of Francis Keene
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Literary Fiction
Frank Keene has a gift for talking people into things they never intended to do. To his exhausted son, David, that’s just a polite way of saying his father is a lifelong conman. Now stuck in an assisted living facility, Frank drops a bombshell: his cancer has returned. His dying wish is one last cross-country road trip to a colossal Florida amusement park he once promised his late wife they’d visit. David expects a grueling drive full of bad diner coffee, cheap motels, and his father slipping right back into his old manipulative ways. He gets all of it. But with his thirteen-year-old son, Eli, in the backseat, David soon realizes this is no ordinary farewell tour. 
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Play. a novel
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Horror
Play is a haunting, slow-burn psychological horror novel about insomnia, grief, and the terrifying cost of nostalgia. Jack Plummer hasn’t slept in months. Doctors can’t help. Pills don’t work. Nights stretch endlessly until exhaustion becomes a way of life. Then, at two in the morning, he finds something impossible: a fully stocked, 24-hour VHS rental store in San Francisco—a relic of the past that shouldn’t exist anymore. The tapes work. Jack sleeps—deeply, completely—for the first time in years. But the sleep comes with side effects. Lost hours. Blackouts. Memories that don’t come back the same way they left. Faces blur. Words vanish. Phone calls are made that Jack can’t remember placing. And the more he returns to the store, the more it seems to know exactly what he’s lost—and what he’s willing to sacrifice to forget. As the boundaries between waking life, memory, and recorded media begin to dissolve, Jack realizes the tapes aren’t just helping him rest. They’re taking something in return. And the price keeps increasing. Dark, unsettling, and emotionally raw, Play explores addiction in its most seductive form: relief. Blending psychological horror with surreal dread, the novel asks a chilling question—how much of yourself would you give up for one good night’s sleep? Perfect for readers who enjoy atmospheric, character-driven horror. |
