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Absences: A Lament for the Unlived Life
Paperback
Series: Short Stories
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 8 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Absences: A Lament for the Unlived Life
By Tomazo Pagonis
In a world overflowing with noise, Absences listens for the quiet-those unspoken moments, lost chances, and unseen lives that pass us by. Blending storytelling, poetry, allegory, and satire, Thomas Tomazo Pagonis crafts a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of memory and moral reckoning.
From a child selling roses in a tavern of gluttons to a lonely madman whose truths were buried beneath ridicule, these interconnected tales ask: What happens when we fail to speak, to act, to care or to love? And most importantly, what happens when we do not act?
At once timeless and deeply of our time, Absences is a meditation on humanity's missing pieces-and a call to notice what (and who) we've left behind.
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