Steven Kerry

I Believe For Every Drop of Rain That Falls Someone Drowns Steven Kerry

Theo Cinder is a man so full of unbridled rage that to cross his path is to become the unwitting target of his acidic tongue. No adult is immune from his stealth attacks. His gnarly nature makes Scrooge look like a milquetoast. Only his estranged long term partner Trevor is able to see the wounded child within Theo and understand the source of his rage, which explodes to the surface after they separate. When Theo's car breaks down he reluctantly decides to take a bus home. However, he soon realizes the bus has but one other passenger and no driver when it lurches into motion. The eccentric older gentleman who had boarded the bus with him is soon transformed into an animated human silhouette, a professorial "creature of no color" who calls himself Charlie. Charlie informs Theophilos Cinder that he will not be allowed off the bus until he completes a mandatory course in Life 101 consisting of a journey through the painful events in his past that contributed to his becoming a human cactus. Will re-visiting the source of his inner pain result in an epiphany and lead to a reunion with the heartbroken Trevor? In taking this illuminating journey through one man's life we come to realize there is a bit of Theophilos Cinder in us all.