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This Quiet Undoing
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Ongoing, First published Jul 01, 2025
Mature
What does it mean to be alive when your existence feels borrowed? What remains of a life when the self begins to erode? When the world no longer reaches you, and the self becomes a rumour?

This book is a descent into the quiet ruin of a person. Told in unbroken confession, it explores the sterile unreality of daily life, the hollowness of performance, and the unbearable weight of memory. There is no arc. No redemption. Only fragments drifting between numbness, longing and distance.

Written in a voice stripped of hope, each chapter lingers in the blurred space between being and non-being, where mirrors no longer reflect and the body continues out of habit alone. This is not a story of survival, it is the study of a life quietly dissolving.

For those who have felt untethered from reality, from themselves, or from the idea of personhood altogether, this is a mirror you may not want to look into, but cannot ignore.
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