Wonderment Within Weirdness: A Story That Contains Everything

When people talk about novels, especially debut novels, there is often an assumption that they will focus on one or two central themes. A book might be primarily about adventure, or love, or war, or philosophy. Some stories lean heavily into action, others into introspection. Many books are structured around a specific narrative focus, and that focus shapes how readers understand the story. But when I look at my debut novel, Wonderment Within Weirdness, something stands out to me in a very […]

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You're at your own funeral. You just don't know it yet.

"Absence" — a second-person journey through the bardo between death and recognition. About discovering you've been gone long before your heart stopped.

Not horror. Just truth.

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Absence

You wake up. Move through your morning. Your family weeps at the table — you don't notice. At work, colleagues look through you. Then you see the coffin. You're looking at yourself.

Kairos Prometheon