These Are Not My Final Words, Samantha Ryan
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When a grieving animator’s dead best friend starts talking to him through their cartoon duck, reality unravels in this darkly funny and heartfelt tale of love, loss, and creative resurrection.
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These Are Not My Final Words by Samantha Ryan is a hauntingly funny and tender exploration of grief, creativity, and the strange ways love refuses to die.
Johnny insists he’s fine. Sure, his best friend and creative partner, Jace, is gone—but that’s no reason to fall apart. So what if the animated duck they created together suddenly shows up at Jace’s funeral, quacking in Jace’s voice?
As Dick the cartoon duck begins to follow him everywhere, Johnny is forced to confront what’s real, what’s imagined, and what’s been left unsaid. Through disjointed memories and the surreal collapse of art into life, Johnny must face his unspoken love for Jace, his suffocating co-dependence, and the painful truth that not every story can have a happy ending.
At once irreverent and deeply moving, These Are Not My Final Words is a metafictional portrait of grief in the creative process—a story about the ghosts we draw, the ones we love, and the ones we finally learn to let go.
Binding: Paperback
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