Today I Am Happy

By Lorenzo Scott Galli

There are men who seem to be born from the shadows, creatures who can weave the darkness like a tailor-made cloak. Roger Franklin Junior was one of them. He was the kind of man you speak of in hushed tones and only when you think you are alone, as if his very name had the power to summon him. He lived beyond good and evil, suspended on a thread of pure obsession, a human reflection of the things that crawl and bite when no one is looking.

When Detective Allison Johnson and attorney Joyce Freeman set foot in that maximum security prison, they thought they knew what they were getting into. They thought they knew the kind of monster they would find. But Roger wasn't the type to limit himself to just one face or one secret. He had spent years building a world of his own, made of invisible chains and insidious silences, a universe where pain and control were pieces of a puzzle that only he knew.

Allison and Joyce found themselves face to face with something different, something beyond common understanding. Entering that world meant sliding down a slippery slope, a path that Roger had already traced, with almost superhuman cunning and calm. No chain could ever imprison his mind.

What they saw behind those walls-what they heard, breathing that heavy air-cannot be easily explained. They were witnessing not just a shadow, but an evil that feeds on solitude, a mind that knows every corner of the darkness. They knew Roger would manipulate them, yet they found themselves trapped anyway, unable to escape a truth that crept out of the shadows like a cold blade.

This is a tale of obsessions that nest like insects under the skin, of men who crave a power that can never be enough. After all, some secrets are not meant to be discovered. Some shadows, if disturbed, are ready to spread, to suck everything. And sometimes, a look in the wrong eyes is enough to discover that what looks back at us may never leave us again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F79NQYMQ
• ISBN13: 9798282138115
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"