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A Philosophy of Scars: A Story of Broken Hearts and Overthinking Minds
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Series: Voices of Anarchy: Radical Fiction and Thought, Book 6
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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 admits, Mark rejects appearances, ambition, and comfort. He chooses decay over conformity. Cigarettes over certainty. Isolation over illusion.
But beneath his intellectual armor lies something far more fragile: a man desperate to be loved not for how he appears, but for what he is.
A Philosophy of Scars is a raw, intimate novella about pessimism, anarchism, mental instability, and the dangerous beauty of thinking too deeply in a world that rewards obedience.
For readers who appreciate philosophical fiction with emotional edge and psychological intensity.
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