Angstistentialism III: Stories From The Small Hours

By Milo Verenne

Stories From The Small Hours continues the Angstistentialism series - modern literary fiction about sleepless minds, fractured identities, and subtle revelations that surface in the middle of the night, when even shadows feel self-aware.

Across a sleepless city, strangers practise small rituals of honesty. They meet on bridges, in museums, elevators, libraries, stairwells, dance studios, shared kitchens, and night-shift reading rooms. To survive the dark, they invent rules: tell one truth; borrow light without stealing it; name what has been erased; keep a place alive by staying.

Featuring eight thematically linked stories, Stories From The Small Hours follows people at quiet thresholds who discover that meaning does not arrive as revelation, but as maintenance. They listen closely. They repair gently. They choose clarity over euphemism, care over spectacle, presence over certainty.

Loss is acknowledged but not dramatized. Love is tentative, often temporary, yet real. Cities speak not in commands, but in invitations: doors opening, lights shared, names returned.

These stories ask what remains when grand answers fail, and suggest that what remains is enough: a ledger kept, a bridge crossed, a room warmed, a light passed hand to hand.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GF2RL5N7
• ISBN13: 9798242674370
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"