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Jhon lives alone.
Or at least, that is what he tells himself.
He lives inside a tired, yellowed flat where the clock is forever trapped at midnight, seven dead flowers wait in a cracked glass, and cigarette smoke hangs in the rooms like something that refuses to leave.
Every morning, Jhon gathers enough courage to imagine another life.
A life outside.
A life with people.
Friends.
Laughter.
Perhaps even love.
Every night, however, the same old ghosts return.
Fear.
Shame.
Desire.
Regret.
Sadness.
They know his name.
They know his memories.
And, more disturbingly, they seem to know what Jhon refuses to remember.
There is a door in the flat.
There are seven steps beyond it.
There is a woman who appears whenever Jhon begins to believe he might finally escape.
There is a pub called The Black Lantern.
There are letters he does not remember writing.
There are rooms that should not exist.
And there is always tomorrow.
Tomorrow, Jhon will leave.
Tomorrow, Jhon will find someone.
Tomorrow, Jhon will finally begin to live.
But tomorrow has a peculiar habit of never arriving.
Below the Surface is a dark collection of seven narrative fables about loneliness, shame, memory, longing and the strange architecture of the human mind.
But beneath the poetry lies another story.
A quieter one.
A story hidden inside the numbers.
Inside the doors.
Inside the clock.
Inside the things Jhon remembers incorrectly.
Every chapter brings him closer to something he has spent years refusing to face.
Perhaps the ghosts are haunting Jhon.
Perhaps Jhon is haunting the ghosts.
Perhaps the door has never been locked.
Perhaps it was never a door at all.
Seven chapters. Seven steps. Seven memories.
And beneath everything Jhon believes he knows...
something is waiting.
Welcome below the surface.