Astral Cuts: A Novel

Urban Fantasy magic and mind-bending metaphysics combine in this fast-paced novel from John Notlad. Perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin. If you enjoy Fantasy with a literary style, dark emotional twists, and a sense of nostalgic uneasiness, this might be for you.From the back cover:Demons manifest, unconscious minds project, and trauma unburies itself just beyond the veil of physical reality.After addiction tore his mother from the world of the living, Flint felt destined to remain a man plagued by loneliness. However, her death seemed to attract more company than he could ever hope to manage.Grief-stricken, Flint quickly falls into the hands of an otherworldly gentleman. The enigmatic, old cowboy claims to be a friend of his late mother. He offers answers surrounding her death and a plot of revenge. However, Flint soon finds that John's motives are far more sinister than he let on and the answers he provides only lead Flint deeper down the rabbit-hole between this reality and another.From the other side of that rabbit-hole emerges Nelson Germander. He was a friend of Flint's from childhood, an imaginary one. He has returned to the physical world with a warning: the cowboy is a dark entity from the lower astral planes, hellbent on ruining Flint’s life. Armed with Kashvi, a portal opening dagger, the two old friends must descend through the layers of reality to find him. They are soon confronted with the demons that lurk in the shadows…and their minds. Along the way, Flint's troubled past rears its head and the sinful connection that binds he and his mother to the astral visitors becomes all too clear.Content Warning: Suicide, Drug Abuse, Moderate Violence, sexually explicit scenes

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