The Image After

By Andy Beyer-Bowden

The Image After is a psychological novella about grief, isolation, and the ways people wound those closest to them.

Months after their mother's death, estranged siblings Alex and Carmen spend a fraught winter week circling one another in the aftermath. Intelligent but socially inept and emotionally self-destructive, they are bound together less by affection than by a shared past neither has fully reckoned with. Arguments flare and reckless impulses threaten to unravel them further.

Through intrusive flashbacks and interior monologues, memory presses relentlessly against the present. As old wounds reopen and new ones form, the siblings must confront whether family is a refuge-or a weapon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNMBRZ9R
• ISBN13: 9798248422739
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"