The Comets

By Martín Maderna

Across centuries, across bloodlines, across the thin veil between the living and the dead, something keeps repeating-like an orbit you can't break.

The Comets is a genre-bending collection of interconnected tales that moves from colonial Argentina to contemporary Buenos Aires and into dystopian near-futures, tracing the invisible forces that shape desire, grief, faith, violence, and the secrets families carry for generations.

A girl crosses a square and ages with every step. A pregnant fugitive meets a General who makes a promise under firelight-and inherits a telescope that will outlive them both. A family can only see each other when they "vibrate" at the same frequency. A casual act of kindness becomes a descent into a saint-filled nightmare. A lover's betrayal leads into the dark woods where power changes hands. A modern town celebrates "purification" with ritual cruelty. A mother's devotion becomes captivity.

Threading through it all is a persistent cosmic rumor: that when Halley's Comet returns, another, almost imperceptible comet follows-close enough to amplify its influence, close enough to tilt the rules of human life. And when those rules bend, consequences don't always arrive at once. Sometimes they take years. Sometimes generations.

Intimate, cinematic, unsettling, and tender, The Comets is a haunted map of people trying to survive their own histories-and, against the odds, choosing to be happy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CDNM8NCH
• ISBN13: 9798854890724
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"