Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Going back doesn’t always mean returning to the place you remember.
Black Mouth follows a group of childhood friends drawn back toward the secrets, trauma, and strange figure that shaped their past. What happened years ago never disappeared entirely, and returning means confronting both the place they left behind and everything they carried away from it.
It’s a dark story about memory, friendship, old wounds, and the unsettling realization that leaving something behind isn’t the same as escaping it.
Sometimes what follows us home isn’t visible.
That doesn’t make it any less present.
This piece can be found through Better World Books.
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