Brainchild

A man wakes up in a stranger's body, and that stranger is twelve years old. Ron Carver has spent three decades building a life, only to open his eyes in a form he doesn't recognize, trapped in a child's fragile vessel while his adult mind races ahead. The world sees a boy. He sees a prisoner. What follows is a taut, unsettling meditation on identity and what it means to be trapped in the wrong flesh. Slesar builds dread through small, precise details: the way clothes fit wrong, the dismissals from adults who see only a face, the horrifying discovery of what this body can do when his adult intelligence wields it. This is body horror for the thinking reader, a horror that doesn't rely on gore but on the existential terror of being erased by the very form you wear.