J. David Osborne

By the Time We Leave Here, We'll Be Friends is the story of four prisoners who must escape from a Siberian gulag overrun by violent gangsters circa 1952. In order to successfully make it across the tundra, they must trick a fellow prisoner into following them, so that they can cannibalize him when they run out of food. Meticulously researched and darkly surreal, By the Time blends historical fiction with haunting imagery and brutal body horror, culminating in an ending that readers have been talking about since the book debuted. Winner of the 2010 Wonderland Award for Best Novel "A David Lynchian nightmare set in a Russian gulag...paranoid, cold, brutal, haunting, mystifying (in a good way), and totally unforgettable." - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock

On the 5th anniversary of Michael Allen Rose and Sauda Namir, Michael asked a number of friends, colleagues, and members of their creative family to submit tributes and stories about the couple. This full color book collects these illustrations, photos, stories, poems and anecdotes. It was made with the utmost love, and filled with a staggering variety of pieces dedicated to the 5th year of the bizarro couple and their relationship.