The Maths of Mercy

This collection spans five years, written between the ages of eighteen and twenty-three, arranged in the order they were lived.The structure—Noise, Smoke, Silence—tracks the cost of that journey. It begins with the desperate belief that volume makes you heard, moves through the haze of hiding behind vices, and ends in the necessary quiet of acceptance.The boy you meet on the first page believes love is something you die for; the narrator you meet at the end knows it is something you have to live with.This is not a lesson on how to heal. It is simply the evidence that the fire eventually dies, and we remain. Read more