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The Thing In The Corner
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Polymath Portfolio Group
Published: Apr 2 2026
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.16 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Marcus thought the worst thing in his life was being alone.
He was wrong.
After his relationship quietly falls apart, Marcus finds himself sitting in his apartment, surrounded by silence he helped create. The conversations he avoided. The distance he let grow. The version of himself he slowly became.
And then there's the corner.
At first, it's nothing. Just a shadow. Something easy to ignore.
But the longer he sits with it... the harder it becomes to pretend it isn't there.
Watching.
Waiting.
Understanding more about him than he wants to admit.
As Marcus spirals through memory, regret, and the quiet truth of who he's been, he's forced to confront something far more terrifying than being alone:
The possibility that he was never alone to begin with.
The Thing in the Corner is a psychological, slow-burning exploration of avoidance, self-deception, and the quiet ways we disappear from our own lives.
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