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LIfe Against Us: Stories of Fear, Guilt, and the Human Condition.
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Series: The Curse of Being Alive: A Dark Realism Collection
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ISBN13: 9798275377507
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 20 2025
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Life Against Us is a razor-edged collection of stories about people standing on the thin line between survival and collapse. A man feels his heart tighten each time he crushes a cockroach, as if the universe keeps a secret score of his smallest cruelties. A couple wanders through the ruins of their own grief, lost in a silence that tastes like ash. Others wake every morning certain that something inside them is breaking, yet unable to tell whether it is fear or freedom.
These stories peel back the skin of everyday life to reveal the violence beneath: the quiet self-betrayals, the desires we bury until they burn, the shadows we pretend are not ours. Each tale whispers a different truth, sharp enough to draw blood.
Life Against Us does not offer comfort. It offers a mirror. And the courage to look at it.
Life Against Us does not offer comfort. It offers a mirror. And the courage to look at it.
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