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The Tender and the Strange: 5 Stories for Anyone Slightly Unhinged

The Tender and the Strange: 5 Stories for Anyone Slightly Unhinged

T. I., Riya

Paperback

HumorLiterary Fiction

ISBN13: 9798180410702
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some people love loudly.

Others love by buying the wrong gift with complete sincerity, washing dishes in the bathroom, calling themselves something else on a dating app, or turning an ordinary habit into a private act of survival.

The Tender and the Strange is a collection of five intimate stories about the small, secret things people do when nobody is looking.

A brunch conversation about terrible gifts becomes a study of care, disappointment, and the comedy of modern love. A household that looks broken from the outside turns out to run on a hidden logic of its own. A man in Rennes becomes Roberto online and slowly loses track of which version of himself is real. A girl growing up in an Indian household learns how rules are inherited, enforced, and rewritten in secret. And a summer in 1954 England opens a door to longing, freedom, and the possibility that some dreams are older than the houses that contain them.

Funny, tender, and occasionally strange, these stories live in the gap between what a life looks like from the outside and what is really going on underneath. Together they ask what we hide, what we keep repeating, and how much love can be found inside the odd little habits that make us who we are.

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