Convincing Winters

By Jeffrey Arbelaez

What would you say if a million dollars depended on your reason to live?
When Winters is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he doesn't retreat in fear-he places an ad in the newspaper.
Give me your reasons to live and win a million dollars.
Alone in the quiet house he once shared with his late wife, Winters turns his living room into a sanctuary of books and waiting. One by one, strangers knock at his door: a hungry investor chasing wealth, a desperate mother seeking security for her children, a pastor promising salvation, a doctor determined to save him from himself. Calm, observant, and quietly unraveling, he invites strangers into his home-each certain they deserve the money, each convinced they understand life better than he does.
But Winters isn't looking for business plans, sermons, or diagnoses. He is searching for something that can withstand grief, aging, suffering, and the unbearable weight of silence. He wants a reason strong enough to make staying worth it.
As his illness advances and the visits grow more urgent, the question shifts: is he testing them-or are they testing him?
Somewhere between love and loss, faith and futility, one final visitor may change everything-or prove that nothing can.
If no one can convince him life is worth living... what will he do with the million dollars?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C9SH15T2
• ISBN13: 9798399910291
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"