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That Cursed Spring: A Story of First Love and Silence
Paperback
RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some seasons do not pass. They leave their weather inside you.
That Cursed Spring is a lyrical novella of first love, silence, and belated recognition. When an aging man comes upon a trace of the girl he once loved, a long-buried spring opens again within him. Memory returns in fragments-glances, songs, roads once walked, words never spoken-and with it the troubling question of what truly happened all those years ago.
Moving between recollection and reverie, the book explores the inner life of a love that was never fully lived, and the sorrow of understanding too late what might once have been saved.
Set between past and present, the story follows a bond that needed no declaration, a silence that deepened into mystery, and the slow, devastating realisation that time does not heal everything-it sometimes only conceals. As recollection and imagination begin to blur, the past opens again, asking what really happened, what was taken, and whether some wounds can ever be laid to rest.
Tender, haunting, and steeped in memory, That Cursed Spring is a story for readers drawn to reflective literary fiction, lost love, and the sorrow of understanding too late.
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