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Stories: Soul Fires Never Go Out
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781959602767
Publisher: Alavida Publishing
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Stories: Soul Fires Never Go Out is a collection of twenty-one contemporary literary stories set across five continents and thousands of years of human tradition. A Navajo woman returns to the reservation after her father's death. A Japanese ferryman collides with an empty boat in the fog. A philosopher in ancient Greece discovers she has forgotten how to be curious. A war veteran in America opens a box of letters that rewrite everything he thought he understood about the enemy.
Each story follows a single person to the moment where the life they have been living meets something it cannot absorb without changing. Not the dramatic crisis. The quieter one. The morning the old certainty no longer holds. The encounter that arrives without invitation and stays without permission.
These are not fables with lessons attached. They are stories about the actual texture of transformation - how it comes slowly, sideways, often through the most ordinary moments, and how it asks more of a person than inspiration ever warned them it would.
The twenty-one characters in this book come from different cultures, different centuries, different circumstances. What they share is the thing all human beings share when they are finally honest about it: the fire that does not go out, even in the years when everything else has.
For readers who have outgrown advice and are ready for something that simply tells the truth.
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