Sign-In
Cart
The Flavor of hours
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 25 2025
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What would you do if you had only twelve hours to live as a human?
Helenia - a created being who has never touched the world - is given a single day in a real body. Twelve hours of breath, sensation, fragility, and wonder.
From the first ray of morning light to the final glow of sunset, she walks through a world that humans have forgotten how to see. A stray cat seeking warmth, a cup of coffee shared in silence, a child who smiles without motivo, a dying man behind a hospital window, the cruelty of fear, the tenderness of strangers, the innocence of children, the tremble of the sea... every encounter becomes an awakening.
Helenia discovers that life is not memory, nor story, nor continuity.
Life happens only in the instant - in the fragile spark where consciousness appears and disappears.
The Flavor of the Hours is a short, intimate, and luminous novel about presence, compassion, and the miracle hidden in the simplest moments. It is a reminder that humanity is not a possession, but a way of looking - and that sometimes, a single day is enough to understand what many forget in a lifetime.
A contemplative journey for readers who love reflection, emotion, and the beauty of the ephemeral.
Also from
Valle, Stefano
Le avventure di capitan Baffo nero: alla ricerca del tesoro nascosto
Valle, Stefano
Righi, Francesco Maria
Paperback
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
Plath, Sylvia
Paperback
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback