The Living

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, Living or Dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2018 by Isaac Marion

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information, contact the author at: isaac@isaacmarion.com

ISBN: 978-1-939126-38-2

Published by Zola Books

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Excerpt from Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative by Herbert Mason, copyright © 1998, Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Lyrics quoted from “Livin’ Man” by Henri Lanoë, from the Twilight Zone episode “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

Interior illustrations adapted by Isaac Marion from sources in the public domain.

Jacket design by Jeff Miller at Faceout Studios

Author photograph by Juliann Itter