The Cough Syrup Prophet: A Novella
THE COUGH SYRUP PRIVET
A Novella
He doesn't believe in redemption.
He believes in surviving the night.
The Cough Syrup Prophet is a raw, confessional novella about love, addiction, art, and the quiet ways people abandon each other without cruelty. Told in a voice that is sharp, self-aware, and unflinchingly honest, it follows a man who turns his damage into language and mistakes intensity for intimacy.
At the center of the story is Layla, a woman who doesn't try to save him and refuses to be consumed by his darkness. Their relationship unfolds through late-night bars, borrowed mornings, and conversations that cut too close to be romantic. As his words begin to reach strangers and his pain becomes public, love starts asking for things he doesn't know how to give.
This is not a story about getting clean.
It's not a story about being fixed.
It's a story about choosing art over presence and living with the cost.
Written in a Bukowski-leaning style but grounded in modern confession, The Cough Syrup Prophet is for readers who don't want hope packaged neatly and don't need their endings explained. It's for anyone who has ever loved someone honestly and still been left, anyone who knows that staying alive is sometimes the bravest thing you do all day.
Some people survive by getting better.
Some survive by telling the truth.
This is a book for the second kind.
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