Blue Side Up

Alex and Justin have always been brothers first, and everything else second.  When Alex was ten and Justin was four, their mother left. No goodbye. No note. Their father told them she “didn’t want them anymore,” and there was never any reason to believe otherwise.

Their father, who already had a drinking problem, completely unraveled after she was gone — the gambling worsened, the temper grew sharper, and sometimes he forgot to feed them at all. Alex grew up fast, becoming a caretaker before he was even a teenager. By eighteen, he’d taken Justin and filed for guardianship, determined to give him a better life.

It didn’t stick.

Justin inherited more of their father’s reckless streak than either of them liked to admit — volatile, addicted, running from one bad decision to the next. Alex stayed the steady one. The fixer. The man who kept things from falling apart.

This is the story of what happens when their father’s death brings them back together… and a strange object from his house begins to tear their reality apart.