Sometimes we write the book. Other times the story uses our hands to write itself. This is one of those stories.
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The world is not what it seems.

Most people walk through their lives blind to the seams of reality fraying around them. But some of us were forced to see the distortions early.

I grew up in the shadow of a father lost to alcoholism, depression, PTSD and later the fractured static of schizoaffective disorder. I learned the language of loss when my mother's life ended on a highway while I was still a small child. Later, I spent years in the cold, clinical silence of the morgue-harvesting the eyes, skin, and bones of hundreds of dead bodies.

I have looked into the hollow spaces where a soul used to be. I don't just write about the dark. I walk comfortably through it.

Evolutionaries: Silent Eclipse is a journey into the spaces between trauma and a terrifying cosmic truth. It follows Jasper and Aurea-two souls bound by a past they can't escape and a frequency they are only just beginning to understand. This isn't just fiction; it's a calibration of the shadows I've walked through my entire life.

-Ash J. Peterson