Three Days Breathing - Paperback

by Mike Maguire (Author)

Corim Colleran is born into a cold and sterile world. In tiny apartments, meager meals are delivered through chutes in the cupboards. In robot-run schools, sexual development is cultivated with clinical precision. No one can leave their corner of the city. No one can change the course of their predetermined days, or the length of their preset lifespans. The only real thing Corim can choose is the woman he loves, but the life he builds with her is torn apart by a violent encounter with one of society's elites. Corim goes down a twisted path where he discovers the answers to his lifelong questions about the system ruling him. He also discovers the will to fight it. The gripping story of Three Days Breathing combines a classic sci-fi aesthetic with modern takes on love, loss, and individualism. Readers should be advised it contains adult themes and moderate violence.

Author Biography

Mike Maguire sometimes takes photos in his home city of Washington, DC, and cowrote the 2012 feature film Ultrasonic. His first full-length novel, Three Days Breathing, was published in electronic form in January 2016, and in print in August 2016. The latest print edition of his book of palindrome-based poetry, Drawn Inward, was nearly twenty years in the making and published in June of 2016. He is slated to compete in the 2017 World Palindrome Championship. When he's not writing, he enjoys terribly loud music, as well as wandering through cities and the occasional forest.