Coherence

The Essence and The Form

There are plenty of books about reaching that moment. There are very few about the morning after it. Fifty-two short stories that are really twenty-six, each one told twice. In The Essence, a recognition is compressed into a single held image. In The Form, the same recognition is lived by a particular person, in a particular week, at what it actually cost. The people are ordinary and the weather is northern. There is nothing to join, nothing to believe, and nothing at the end to buy.

35,056 words, a full-length read. Available as ebook, paperback and hardcover.