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Flowers at the Meadow's Edge
Paperback
Science FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Eric Petrela
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.44 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Flowers at the Meadow's Edge takes its title from the metaphor used by the Latin poet Catullus: ...a flower at the meadow's edge, cut by the passing plough. The book gathers stories that move between memory, satire, social observation, speculative fiction and metaphysical burlesque, while remaining anchored in the fragile terrain of human experience. A boy's bond with a doomed family dog, the suffocating tensions of urban childhood, the hidden violence beneath suburban order, a future world haunted by the wreckage of the present, and even gods themselves struggling unsuccessfully to redeem humanity - all become part of a single thematic arc concerned with innocence, betrayal, responsibility and loss.
Each story is accompanied by illustrations that extend and reinterpret the narratives, creating a hybrid form poised between traditional prose fiction and graphic storytelling. Together, text and image trace the vulnerable border where tenderness encounters the brute mechanisms of history, society and human nature itself.
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