The Missing Witness

By Kory J Arsenault

The Missing Witness is a literary novella set aboard a small boat at anchor.

Told in short, restrained chapters, it follows a stretch of days where nothing dramatic happens and nothing goes wrong - where routines hold, systems work, and time passes cleanly. Coffee is made. Weather shifts. The anchor is checked. A dog sleeps nearby.

As solitude settles in, the narrator begins to notice something quieter and harder to name: moments that arrive fully formed, then pass through without leaving a trace. Not loneliness, and not dissatisfaction - just the growing awareness that experience changes when there is no witness to receive it.

This novella isn't a guide, a manifesto, or a story about escape. It's a record of attention applied over time, and of learning what it means to stay present when nothing demands you do otherwise.

Spare, observant, and deliberately unhurried, The Missing Witness is for readers drawn to quiet interiors, lived time, and the meaning that emerges when life is allowed to unfold without commentary.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GHR5PQ53
• ISBN13: 9798244413830
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"