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The Space Between...: The Holding Room

The Space Between...: The Holding Room

Suttles, Ed

Paperback

Science Fiction

ISBN13: 9798296370976
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 3 2025
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Space Between
by Ed Suttles

At 2:17 a.m., the world stops following the rules. Logan wakes to find reality fractured-subsonic hums, impossible objects, time reading multiple moments simultaneously. When he and his partner Jackie touch the strange artifact that appears in Logan's pocket, they're pulled into the Holding Room: a vast threshold between realities where every moment of indecision, every path not taken, floats suspended in an impossible space. Here, they discover something that will remake their understanding of love, consciousness, and what it means to be truly present.

But the Holding Room is not a refuge. It's a crucible. As Logan and Jackie are tested across fractured timelines and impossible separations, they uncover the truth that terrifies them most: love itself is the circuit that holds reality together. And if love is the answer, then presence-authentic, imperfect, grounded presence-is the work.

Three years later, they've transformed an ordinary neighborhood café into something sacred: a sanctuary where people come seeking miracles and discover something more valuable. Marcus, who thought his PTSD was permanent. Miriam, carrying three years of grief over her daughter's death. David, a therapist learning that holding space matters more than fixing. Elena, discovering that art can be born from emptiness. Thomas, raging at the café where his sister found peace before dying. Claire, desperately asking for the impossible.

As Logan and Jackie train others to hold space, they confront the deepest test of all: the inadequacy of their work. Some requests cannot be granted. Some pain cannot be transcended. Some love is not enough to prevent loss. And yet, every morning at 5:47 a.m., they open the café doors anyway.

The Space Between is a novel about the sacred that lives in the ordinary, the transformative power of genuine witness, and the quiet heroism of showing up-imperfectly, vulnerably, and with absolute commitment-day after day. For anyone who has ever sensed that something invisible holds the world together, or wondered what it means to love someone so completely that they become your anchor to reality itself.

A love story. A philosophical meditation. A blueprint for building sanctuary in a fractured world.

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