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Drizzle in the City and Other Stories
Paperback
Publisher Price: $10.00
ISBN13: 9789371829335
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
Published: Aug 18 2025
Pages: 98
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Drizzle in the City and Other Stories is a tender, atmospheric collection of quiet reckonings and long-awaited returns. In these pages, author Alvin E. Lauran invites readers to walk through rain-soaked streets, forgotten corridors, and hushed train stations-places where memory lingers and second chances often arrive without warning.
From a former teacher rediscovering his purpose under the awning of a Quiapo pawnshop, to a twin who returns home wearing another man's name, each story is steeped in silence, loss, and the soft resilience that follows heartbreak. Here, the rain is more than backdrop-it is witness, healer, and companion to the unloved, the unseen, and the enduringly hopeful.
Lauran writes with the heart of a survivor and the precision of a poet, crafting narratives that echo long after the final page. His characters are ordinary people carrying extraordinary weight-proof that sometimes, the smallest acts of kindness and courage happen when no one is watching.
Whether it's an old man waiting for a promise in the drizzle, a girl behind a piano heard but never seen, or a potter passing down a legacy shaped in silence, this collection offers light in the fog-one delicate story at a time.
For readers who find solace in the slow unfolding of emotion, Drizzle in the City and Other Stories is a gentle companion: quiet, reflective, and unforgettable.
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