Beware: Hidden Truths
(Release: September 9, 2025)
Some truths are lived. Others are imagined. Most fall somewhere in between.
This powerful collection of vignettes, poems, and short stories explores the moments we carry and the ones that carry us. Woven from memory, imagination, and emotional truth, Beware: Hidden Truths invites readers into quiet reckonings, unspoken histories, and hard-won awakenings.
Each piece stands alone, yet together they form a tapestry of survival, silence, love, grief, and courage. With a voice that is both tender and unflinching, this work holds space for those who have been unseen, unheard, or unhealed and dares to name what was once buried.
What Readers Will Discover
Reflections in Fractured Glass: Where the collection begins — with self-perception, identity, and the uncomfortable distance between who you are and who you have learned to perform.
Echoes of the Past: What grief leaves behind, and what memory refuses to release.
Spectrums of Love: Love that heals, love that wounds, and love that does both at once.
Veil of Shadows: The darker truths. The stories that unsettled even the readers who asked for more.
Refractions of Joy: What remains after everything hard has passed. Hope that was earned, not given.
Book Details
Genre: Literary fiction and reflective prose
Format: Paperback and eBook
Pages: 158
Publication Date: September 9, 2025
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-6657-7993-7 (sc) / ISBN: 978-1-6657-7994-4 (e)
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(Short video reflections exploring the patterns, moments, and themes within selected stories)
Story Reflections
Beyond the Mirror
Daddy’s Silence
Love’s Infinite Spectrum
My Two Cents Worth
Scent of Deceit
The Chaos Blanket
Through the Silence
Waiting for Today
Walking Backward, Falling Forward
Whispers in the Fire
Reader Impressions
(From personal conversations, signings, and direct reader feedback)
“This book hit too close to home.”
“I had to breathe between stories.”
“The book structure felt like a therapy session… the beginning was hard, the ending was hopeful.”
Reader Responses
(From Amazon Readers)
“This isn’t a book that tells you what the truth is. It invites you to notice your own. To listen for what resonates, what aches, what unsettles. It doesn’t shout. It steadily lingers.”
“Each chapter builds tension while also offering insight into trust, deception, resilience, and personal growth.”
“I was very invested in every story… each one had amazing detail that immersed you fully.”
“Every poem, every story makes you think… it lures you to turn to the next.”
Some of the stories… are too dark to relate to… I found much of this disturbing.”
“It’s an emotional and enlightening journey.”
These stories were written to be felt, not just read. If something here stayed with you, the Heart & Soul Circle is where that conversation continues.
Beware: Hidden Truths asked what we carry in silence. Diamond Heart, Frozen Souls asks what love costs when it must be performed across obligations and generations and whether it survives.