Almost and Always: The Discipline of Wanting

By Mehak Vishwakarma

Almost and Always is a collection of confessional prose and poems that traces the violence of wanting, the kind that does not announce itself as love, yet refuses to leave. Written in fragments of longing, devotion and emotional exposure, these pieces move between what is nearly held and what is endured anyway. There is no promise of healing here, no moral resolution, no attempt to justify desire. The book is arranged in two movements, Almost and Always, mirroring the way attachment begins as possibility and settles into persistence. These pages speak of unnamed connections, unanswered gazes, loyalty without assurance and the cost of loving without permission. This is a book for those who have lived inside almosts, mistaken proximity for mercy and learned that some loves do not end, they remain.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHGKTZ8D
• ISBN13: 9798243953863
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"