What Brews After Midnight

By: Bennett, Ryan

Elias runs a late-night coffee shop that attracts people desperate to delay difficult moments. Over time, he discovers the shop feeds on unfinished time: when people hesitate too long, the shop folds reality around them, preserving their unresolved states. After learning the shop grew from his own refusal to let moments end following a traumatic accident, Elias faces a choice-preserve the pause or collapse it. When a violent man deliberately enters the shop, Elias ends the moment at last, dismantling the shop's supernatural hold. The shop closes quietly. Years later, Elias lives an ordinary life, aware that while the place is gone, the human instinct to delay remains-and that ending moments is now a shared responsibility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWNXZSD8
• ISBN13: 9798254400615
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"