Everybody has fears in common, and in this wonderous handwritten book, author Michael Bernard Loggins (an adult with developmental disabilities) battles his fears by listing more than 183 of them. Loggins explores the depths of our most human emotion from real fears like '#53 Fear of Bats' and '#57 Fear of being different,' to more complex, imagined fears like '#85 Fear that if you put too much toilet paper in the toilet bowl it will run over and get all over the floor and on you and on someone else too, it would leak from upstairs to the next floor below.'

Staff Review
Originally published as zines, this 2 part listing of the author's fears is now a beautifully put together little hardcover. You may have heard an excerpt read on This American Life, but reading the book (the text in the author's handwriting)is more of a meditation on fear.

Some of his fears are vague ('San Franciso fears'), some are extremely specific ('fear of tall giraffe'), some are meta-fears about how he may not come up with another fear or how he may inspire fear in others (there are pages of how it upsets him when people don't want to sit next to him on the bus), but most of his fears are universal ones that we all have. I, too, fear that my television might explode if I turn it on. Sometimes you just get that fear.
-Rachel Whang, Atomic Books Blog