Sleepy Prairie by John Bruni
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In Sleepy Prairie, every day is perfectly ordinary—until Jeff Seltzer starts remembering the man he used to be.
Life in Sleepy Prairie is comfortable. Predictable. Perfectly ordinary.
Jeff Seltzer has a loving wife, a good job, friendly neighbors, and the kind of quiet suburban existence most people would envy. There’s only one problem: he can barely remember any of it.
Not that Jeff is particularly concerned.
Breakfast tastes the way it should. The bills get paid. The neighbors talk about property values and weekend cookouts. Even death is handled neatly, politely, and without too many awkward questions.
But lately, something has begun scratching at the edges of Jeff’s comfortable life.
A thought that doesn’t belong.
A memory he shouldn’t have.
A sudden, horrifying certainty that beneath the routines and pleasantries of Sleepy Prairie lies something he has forgotten for a very good reason.
As cracks begin to spread through Jeff’s picture-perfect world, the past refuses to stay buried—and the man emerging from beneath his carefully ordered life may be far worse than anything waiting outside it.
Brutal, bloody, and wickedly funny, Sleepy Prairie is an extreme psychological horror story about memory, identity, and the terrifying question of whether a monster can ever truly become someone else.