By Russell R. James On Dec 6 2012, 2:25 pm

I write horror to entertain, not really thinking that it might do more.

Two years ago, an old friend Bob was diagnosed with lung cancer. As a show of support, a group of us, who were really tight in high school, got together to visit him. Bob still lived on Long Island where we all grew up, while half of us had moved away all over the country. It had been over thirty years since all of us had gotten together in the same place. Chemo was doing its best to kick Bob’s ass and he was fighting it, and the cancer, every inch of the way. Even with that, it was a great weekend that renewed our friendships and Bob’s spirits.

While we all looked forward to this reunion, I wondered what turn of events would make a group of estranged friends dread the encounter. How awful an event would they have to survive that it could make a reunion too difficult to bear? The seed for my latest release, SACRIFICE, was planted.  I had now idea how it would grow.

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