The Clearing
by Alexander Shalom Joseph
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Pub Date 15 Oct 2025 | Archive Date 1 Oct 2025
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Description
Fleeing a lifetime of disconnection and quiet despair, a man retreats to a remote forest to carve a path through three thousand acres of private wilderness, and perhaps through his own haunted past. As he labors alone among the trees, an escalating series of strange encounters, centered around a clearing deep in the woods, begin to unravel the boundary between his waking life and that of his vivid dreams. With poetic precision and thrilling prose, Alexander Shalom Joseph’s Award Winning Novella, The Clearing, explores isolation, longing, and the aching human need to belong, ultimately asking what might be found when we leave everything behind.
Advance Praise
An ironic and provocative existential thriller that poses questions about solitude, purpose, and the ego that none of us can answer but all of us should ask.
—Alison Turner, author of Defensible Spaces, finalist, Colorado Book Award
This work is attuned both to the violence of late-stage capitalism, and the beauty that still persists in small pockets of wilderness when we look for it. Ultimately, this story is a parable for our times.
—Sage Marshall, author of Echolocation
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781957483351 |
| PRICE | US$16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 81 |
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