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Afterimage
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 13 2026
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Perception does not disappear in full. It lingers as residue.
AFTERIMAGE is an experimental psychological work by Australian writer Zia Abdullah.
Written through fragmented first-person reflections, atmospheric prose, and looping internal narration, the work explores derealization, fractured perception, and the instability of thought when awareness begins arriving too late to fully grasp itself.
Meaning distorts through repetition.
Identity begins to lose coherence.
Thought echoes beyond its origin.
Part psychological descent and part poetic dissolution, AFTERIMAGE places the reader inside an unstable internal landscape where perception no longer arrives cleanly, and where reality feels delayed, fragmented, and increasingly difficult to hold together.
This is not a conventional narrative, but an immersive exploration of perception as aftermath rather than event.
For more information and upcoming work by Zia:
YouTube - ZIA METHOD
chaosofzia.wordpress.com
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