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A Philosophy of Scars: A Story of Broken Hearts and Overthinking Minds
Paperback
Series: Voices of Anarchy: Radical Fiction and Thought, Book 6
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 19 2025
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mark is brilliant, restless, and slowly unraveling. A university student with the mind of a philosopher and the habits of a self-saboteur, he spends his nights debating morality, power, and truth with friends, only to return to a dorm room haunted by silence, hallucinations, and his own spiraling thoughts. After a painful breakup with Isabella, and a fleeting connection that changes him more than he'll admit, Mark rejects appearances, ambition, and comfort. He chooses decay over conformity. Cigarettes over certainty. Isolation over illusion.
But underneath the theory and the nicotine is something much more fragile: a man who wants, badly, to be loved for what he actually is, not for how well he performs being fine. A Philosophy of Scars is a raw, fragmented novella about pessimism, hierarchy, mental instability, and the strange cost of thinking too much in a world built to reward people who don't.
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