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The Glass Proscenium: Collection of Short Stories

The Glass Proscenium: Collection of Short Stories

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798189684616
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 29 2026
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Across fractured realities, hidden institutions, haunted memories, and impossible worlds, the characters of The Glass Proscenium struggle to discover whether there is a self beyond the roles imposed by power, trauma, love, and desire, or whether life itself is nothing more than a performance on a transparent stage.

An investigator uncovers the unsettling logic behind a commune. An opera singer flees across the Qinghai Plateau with a corpse in the boot of her car. A nameless girl wanders an impossible labyrinth in search of a missing dog. A privileged heir plots to destroy the world that created him. A lost cat leads a grieving daughter toward acceptance. A scorched coat bears witness to a teen's secret past. And in a perfectly ordered society, one observer chooses the chaos of being human.

Seven interconnected stories offer quiet glimpses into memory, identity, and the lingering paradoxes of being human.

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