In In and Down, Michael and Stephen are young brothers growing up with no female influence in their lives. Through their father's emotional absence and abuse, they come to believe women do not truly exist. One of the boys draws into himself, looking for answers to the confusion in his life, and throughout this descent, he experiences his past as though through a distorted carnival mirror. When he emerges from his inner journey, he is forced to confront a secret that has been buried deep inside for over thirty years.

Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning Editor-in-Chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, is a Senior Editor at Scholastic Canada, has had nearly 50 short stories published, written two novels, and writes for Rue Morgue Magazine. In 2006, Necro Publications released his horror-comedy novel The Distance Travelled. In the works are three more novels, as well as a dark comic book series with artist Homeros Gilani. When he? s not writing, reading, or editing, he plays drums for the hard rock band Diablo Red, whose third album, Lower the Troll, was released in mid-2007. Savory lives in Toronto with his wife, writer Sandra Kasturi.

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"Compulsively readable, it defies expectations even while seeming to embrace them. The book’s final revelations are breathtaking."