Leaving The Sea by Ben Marcus

Stories

A collection of unsettling, formally inventive stories that move from realism to experimental dystopia, tracing characters who are cut off from others by illness, fear, and the breakdown of language. Across bureaucratic mazes, failing relationships, and bodies that betray their owners, it probes the fragility of connection and the strange rules—social and personal—that govern modern life. The result is a darkly comic, emotionally charged exploration of isolation and the limits of understanding.

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