"DEMON IN THE ROUGH"

The passage below is taken from Andy Nowicki's new publication, Ravages of the 'Rough Beast,' now available on Kindle, and in paperback.

I write with the consciousness of a man who strongly suspects he has acquired a demon.

While not feeling himself to be overtly possessed by said demon, your faithful interlocutor nevertheless struggles to comprehend his current psychic state in absence of rhetorical recourse to citation of the doings of the denizens of the infernal realm.

I am not possessed, I don’t think. Nothing unknown has invaded my body or breached the borders of my consciousness. Still, my mind is demon-haunted, and my heart is devil-bedeviled. An infernal element has entered my interior line of vision, and I can’t seem to avoid glimpsing him; he is always in front of me, though often merely in my peripherals. At times I can forget that he is even there, but then, with a wash of dread, I remember him again.

And once I recall him, there he is before me again.

DETECTING THE DEMON

The following is an excerpt from Andy Nowicki's upcoming publication, tentatively titled Demon in the Rough

I can speak about this apprehension with confidence, because I have experienced it myself.

I detected just such a presence, not through personal experience, as an exorcist might, but rather through research. 

Research would seem to be a dispassionate endeavor, and for the most part, it is. Yet when I pursued certain purported testimonies of high-level corruption, abuse, and atrocity, I quite unexpectedly found myself hurtling down a path leading to a most unwanted awareness of a most unwelcome presence.