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Beyond Life, to the North

Beyond Life, to the North

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798233700286
Publisher: Allen Dean Maiora
Published: Jan 29 2026
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.36 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Beyond Life, to the North is a collection of brief inner explorations rather than stories in the traditional sense. They do not seek an event, but a state. They do not tell what happens, but what remains when everything comes to a halt.
These are dreamlike, suspended texts, inhabited by solitary, attentive characters who move along the thin boundary between reality and perception. Time stretches or dissolves, space loses its precise coordinates, and what matters is not action but emotional experience: a breath, a memory, a glimmer of light, a distant sound. These short pieces offer neither answers nor easy comfort. Instead, they place the reader before a necessary pause-a moment of withdrawal from everyday frenzy-where themes emerge such as existential weariness, the search for meaning, the fragility of happiness, and the awareness of pain as an integral part of life.

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