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Ephemeral Rift: A Book in Forty-Four Movements

Ephemeral Rift: A Book in Forty-Four Movements

Pen & Ink

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798258419415
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 9 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A second-person portrait of a life, rendered across twenty-three chapters with forty-four short writings threaded throughout.

At the center is a man of fifty-four, in Pennsylvania, who has been many things - a son, a husband, a father, a voice on the internet - and who has recently become a writer. The book walks backward and forward through his years, surfacing, at each turn, one of the forty-four: a line scratched under a classroom desk; a prayer rerouted by a single-letter typo; a sentence said once to a stranger on a bus; an inscription inside a wedding ring.

Each of the forty-four arrives in a different way. Some are carved, some whispered, some cached by a smart device and returned later, some never written down at all. Together they form a life lived through accumulation rather than chronology - the residue a person leaves in the world where he was, for long stretches, trying not to be noticed.

The book is quiet, restrained, and occasionally wry. Whether it is a work of literary fiction, an independent portrait, or something else, the book declines to say. That is left to you.

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