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A History of Endings & Other Short Stories
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In A History of Endings & Other Short Stories, novelist Tom Maremaa gathers twenty-five works of literary fiction that move restlessly across continents, centuries, and states of mind-each story a meditation on the fragile moment when something irrevocable gives way to what comes next.
From a young Albert Einstein chafing against the machinery of education, to a historian uncovering impossible obituaries of Robert Johnson in a dust-choked archive, Maremaa's characters inhabit the charged threshold between history and imagination, memory and myth. Presidents and poets, soldiers and scientists, forgotten children and failed prodigies all stand at their own private crossroads, confronting the quiet or catastrophic endings that shape their lives.
These stories unfold in blue-lit war rooms in Washington, D.C., fog-drenched apartments in Berkeley, archives in Copenhagen, riot-scarred hospital wards, and labyrinthine streets from Bangalore to Santa Lucia. A blind photographer learns to see the texture of darkness. A mathematician-poet in Isfahan weighs equations against eternity. A journalist in 1964 records a conversation that may alter the trajectory of history. Across eras marked by war, exile, discovery, and loss, Maremaa's narrators observe the world with lyrical precision and philosophical urgency.
Written in multiple points of view and unified by a distinctive, hypnotic prose style, this collection explores the geometry of faith, the archaeology of memory, and the invisible forces that govern human destiny. Each story stands alone; together, they form a mosaic of endings-personal, historical, and existential-revealing how every conclusion contains the seed of another beginning.
Elegant, ambitious, and deeply human, A History of Endings & Other Short Stories is a sweeping literary collection for readers who are drawn to intellectually rich fiction, haunting atmospheres, and narratives that linger long after the final page. Here, Maremaa invites us to witness the precise instant when lives fracture, histories pivot, and the ordinary world reveals its hidden metaphysical depths-one ending at a time.
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