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Impossible Truths
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 18 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
There is a particular loneliness to being right in ways no one can confirm.
Impossible Truths is a collection of five stories about people who carry knowledge they cannot prove - and the cost of carrying it.
A man plummets through the sky carrying twenty-nine years of abandonment he can no longer outrun. A widower finds himself remembering a life and a family that were never his, grieving people who, by every account, never existed. A grandfather's deathbed confession fractures time itself, and a boy spends a lifetime trying to convince the world he is not mad. A stranger becomes convinced he is someone else entirely - and the line between identity and delusion grows thinner with every passing day. And a god descends from heaven for love - and finds himself unable to prove he ever was one.
These are not stories about madness. They are stories about the distance between what we know and what we can make others believe - and what it costs to live in that distance without resolution, without proof, without anyone willing to say: I cannot confirm this. But I believe you.
Impossible Truths asks not whether these experiences are real. It asks something harder: what does it mean to live with a reality that cannot be shared?
Some questions have no answers. These five people have no choice but to ask them anyway.
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