The Somnambulist's Prophecy: A Fractional Fiction Novel
At the Emain Institute, a private psychiatric facility on the Hudson River, Dr. Francis Morrow documents patients whose visions defy clinical explanation. He arrives as a researcher. He will leave as a witness.
Cesare speaks prophecies in his sleep, his voice carrying the weight of futures not yet arrived. Deirdre sees her own death in multiple versions, each ending different, none of them false. Together, they form a bond that transcends the institutional walls meant to contain them, while Dr. Elias Gari, the Institute's director, pursues his own agenda for understanding and exploiting their gifts.
When Cesare prophesies about the "woman of sorrows" and the man who will try to save her, Francis realizes the prophecy describes them all. The somnambulist speaks of what will come. The seer witnesses her own endings. The researcher must decide whether to remain a chronicler or become a participant in events he cannot control.
Drawing on J.M. Synge's tragic Irish legend Deirdre of the Sorrows, Robert Frost's meditation on silence and growth, and the haunted psychology of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Somnambulist's Prophecy explores the weight of foreknowledge and the boundaries of choice. What does it mean to see the future? What does it cost to speak it? And what remains when prophecy and free will collide?
The sixth novel in the Fractional Fiction series, The Somnambulist's Prophecy synthesizes classic literary source texts with contemporary narrative and research, creating a meditation on fate, agency, and the courage required to bear witness.
Those who plant in silence wait to see what grows.
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