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Half a Degree Off
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Series: Ctdna Project, Book 10
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ISBN13: 9798277538999
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 5 2025
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Half a Degree Off is a collection of seven miniature novels, each built from an ordinary moment tilted just half a degree off-center - enough for reality to reveal what it usually hides.
Chapter 1 dismantles the idea of spiritual powers the real miracle is perception, not magic. Chapter 2 examines responsibility as something imposed, traded, and feared more than chosen. Chapter 3 revisits a lightning-struck childhood where trouble becomes curriculum. Chapter 4 explores the miracle fruit and the illusions of sweetness - how people get drunk on what tastes easy. Chapter 5 follows a woman who has spent her life turning right, until the fear of turning left finally loosens. Chapter 6 reflects on maternal love through a mother cat: love is the willingness to swallow the filth so the young can sleep in something called clean. Chapter 7 walks through Hanoi after a flood: filthy streets, exhausted people, murky water - yet a strangely pure poem rises from the mud.
Chapter 1 dismantles the idea of spiritual powers the real miracle is perception, not magic. Chapter 2 examines responsibility as something imposed, traded, and feared more than chosen. Chapter 3 revisits a lightning-struck childhood where trouble becomes curriculum. Chapter 4 explores the miracle fruit and the illusions of sweetness - how people get drunk on what tastes easy. Chapter 5 follows a woman who has spent her life turning right, until the fear of turning left finally loosens. Chapter 6 reflects on maternal love through a mother cat: love is the willingness to swallow the filth so the young can sleep in something called clean. Chapter 7 walks through Hanoi after a flood: filthy streets, exhausted people, murky water - yet a strangely pure poem rises from the mud.
The book teaches nothing.
It simply offers a small tilt,
a half-degree shift in angle -
just enough for the familiar world
to appear entirely, unsettlingly new.
It simply offers a small tilt,
a half-degree shift in angle -
just enough for the familiar world
to appear entirely, unsettlingly new.
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