This City Breathing (Paperback or Softback)

This City Breathing

Allen Wentworth has been alone for a long time. He is a decent, quiet man. He minds his own business. No one expects anything from him, and all he has ever wanted is to be left in peace. A retirement well-earned. It's just what Allen deserves. After accidentally staying inside his Baltimore rowhouse for over a decade, Allen's precious isolation is threatened by an unforeseen financial inconvenience. The city he must navigate now is one he knows only through accounts - nonfiction and otherwise - he has seen on TV or read about in the news. Exposed in a city unsafe, where breathing freely is not guaranteed, Allen finds an experience that might shake his understanding of the world, and his place in it.

Chad Dean is a fiction writer, propaganda publisher, and cofounder of Splimm and Weekend Review Kit, two digital platforms dedicated to mainstreaming cannabis and ending the racist drug war. Chad has also written articles on these topics for a variety of online and print publications and has worked in business development and marketing for the emerging cannabis industry. Chad's fiction explores related themes, examining the way privilege operates in our society and questioning the role of white male voices to shape our dialogue and culture around literature. A graduate of University of Hartford, Chad earned his MFA from Goddard College. As a white Chad, he spent hours and days flaneuring the streets of Baltimore with his then young daughter. He currently lives with his family in Portland, Oregon and stays mostly for the city's superior coffee, cannabis, and communist leanings. This City Breathing is his first published book.