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Stationary Bike

Published
2006
Language
English

Synopsis

Richard Sifkitz, a widowed artist, becomes obsessed with a stationary bike after his doctor likens his cholesterol to a team of overworked men clearing away fat.

What begins as a desperate health regimen curdles into something far stranger: the men in his imagination begin to manifest in his reality, and the bike itself becomes a conduit for a presence he cannot escape.

As the line between his imagination and the world around him thins, Richard must confront the fact that his obsession has invited something in that he cannot simply ride away.

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Prose complexity 1/10
Content warnings (2)
Death Of An AnimalSuicide

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