The Man Who Eats Fear

In the plains of Oklahoma, there's a man who can stop tornadoes with his bare hands-or so the locals whisper. After a catastrophic storm flattens an entire area, only one house remains intact: that of a reclusive old man named Jubal Webb. Rumor has it he's a witch, a storm forecaster, or simply crazy. Driven by curiosity and skepticism, young journalist Clara Lowe travels into the heart of nowhere to uncover the truth.
But what she finds is stranger-and more human-than she expected. Jubal doesn't stop storms. He thrives on fear. Not to destroy it, but to carry it-to keep it hidden-so others don't have to. As Clara delves into the mystery of the man and the city's past, she uncovers a forgotten tragedy, a tree of buried memories that grows with every secret revealed, and a storm far more dangerous than anything in the sky: the one brewing inside all of us.
In a poetic, emotionally charged story that blends magical realism with rural gothic, *The Man Who Eats Fear* offers a meditation on trauma, healing, and the strange ways we survive the things that try to destroy us.