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The Survivors, their members known only by the order in which they joined, live alone in a rural Colorado mansion. They believe that sickness bears honesty, and that honesty bears change. Fueled by the ritualized Cytoxan treatments that leave them on the verge of death, they instigate the Day of Gifts, a day that spells shocking violence and the group's demise.Enter Mason Hues, formerly known as Thirty-Seven, the group's final member and the only one both alive and free. Eighteen years old and living in a spartan apartment after his release from a year of intensive mental health counseling, he takes a job at a thrift shop and expects to while away his days as quietly and unobtrusively as possible. But when his enigmatic boss Talley learns his secret, she comes to believe that there is still hope in the Survivor philosophy.



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Peter Stenson

Peter Stenson is the author of the novel "Fiend" (forthcoming from Crown in 2013). He has stories and essays published or forthcoming in The Sun, The Greensboro Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Confrontation, Harpur Palate, Post Road, Fugue, Passages North, The Pinch, Blue Mesa Review, The Journal, and Fourteen Hills, among others. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He received his MFA in fiction at Colorado State University. He is represented by James McGinniss with McGinniss Associates. Peter is married to a beautiful woman and is the proud parent to a fat dog and even fatter cat.



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