The Silent Compendium

Before the world breaks, it listens.
On a gray, decaying city at the edge of something unnamed, a young woman carrying her father’s coat and a grief she never learned how to bury steps into a bookstore that should not exist. What she finds there is not comfort—but a book that breathes, a pendant that pulses like a living heart, and a silence that has been waiting centuries to be broken.
As fractures begin to sing beneath asphalt and streetlights flicker with ancient intent, she is drawn into a quiet catastrophe unfolding just out of sight. Memories, loss, friendship, and an unseen symphony intertwine as the world prepares to wake.
The Silent Compendium is a dark fantasy and cosmic horror tale about grief, inherited silence, and the moment before reality fractures—when the universe exhales, and someone must listen.
This is not a story about the end of the world.
It is about the breath it takes before screaming.