Spiderbones

Peter Fyre has a choice: help everyone or hurt everyone. A demonic Coyote Man tortures him the moment he considers any act of kindness. A ghostly nun triggers seizures if he decides to harm the vulnerable. He makes his decision when shocking, racially motivated violence devastates his city. Surgeons have given him an indestructible spider silk skeleton: no burden can snap his bones. Will the same prove true for his heart?

Jeff D'Hondt has a Masters of Social Work degree from York University, and is the proud son of a Belgian Canadian father and a Delaware/Mohawk mother. He currently manages a mental health service for Aboriginal people, and is a sessional instructor in Social Work at Ryerson University. He has also spent over a decade serving the Aboriginal community throughout Ontario at settings including Kingston Penitentiary, the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, Native Men's Residence, the John Howard Society, and hospitals. Although the forms of xenotransplantation discussed in this novel have been outlawed in his province, he remains fascinated by the procedure. If racism and bigotry persist in spite of great efforts to do away with them, is it safe to assume that a scientific endeavour will fade away so easily?