Calder ash (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daniel Mercer is always late.Late to meetings.Late to commitments.Late to the moments that matter most.So when he begins arriving five minutes early, he knows something is wrong.At first, it feels like chance. Then intuition. Then obligation. Each time Daniel arrives early, a life is saved-a stranger pulled back from traffic, a fire interrupted, a child rescued just before it's too late. The pattern is precise. Unforgiving. And it will not let him choose when to stop.As the interval narrows around him, Daniel is forced to confront what those five minutes really mean: whether foresight is a gift or a debt, whether redemption can be claimed through sacrifice, and whether time offers mercy-or only reveals who we are when excuses run out.The Five-Minute Interval is a morally charged work of speculative fiction about grief, responsibility, and the cost of being just in time. Quiet, tense, and deeply human, it asks a single question with increasing urgency: What are you willing to do when you know what comes next Time is not interesting until it becomes ethical. Calder Ash writes speculative fiction that examines identity, memory, and moral choice under pressure. His stories explore the quiet horror of systems that promise certainty, and the human cost of arriving too late, or too early, to the truth.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - TRIAL RUN From Calder Ash, author of The Recall Threshold How many versions of you would die to keep living Oliver Vale is terrified of death.Since losing his mother to cancer, every headache feels like a warning. Every missed heartbeat feels like a countdown. Desperate for relief, he signs up for Trial Run, a revolutionary therapy that promises to help people confront mortality through a fully immersive simulated death experience.For forty-five minutes, Oliver will experience his own death.Then he'll wake up cured.Instead, he wakes up in the wrong life.His flat isn't quite the same. His closest friend remembers a different past. His father is living somewhere he has never been. At first, the differences are small enough to ignore.Until Oliver discovers that Trial Run was never designed to treat fear.It was designed to break the barriers between realities.>If a better version of your life exists somewhere else. do you have the right to take it Trial Run is a gripping psychological sci-fi thriller about grief, identity, and the dangerous temptation to outrun death. From the author of The Recall Threshold, another dark and thought-provoking tale exploring memory, consciousness, and the fragile nature of reality. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Horror begins where the boundary between self and world collapses. Blood escapes. Skin opens. A corpse remains after the person is gone. We are not souls temporarily housed in flesh-we are organisms that generate a sense of self, and that self depends on constantly rejecting the very matter of which it is made.In The Abject, Calder Ash offers a sustained, unflinching philosophical and cultural inquiry into this disturbance. Drawing on Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror, the book tracks the abject through its most insistent material forms-blood, vomit, feces, pus, rot, the corpse, mutilation, parasites, fungus, infection, cannibalism, pregnancy, transformation, aging, and disease. Each is examined as a crisis of containment that reveals the self not as a sealed interior but as a provisional pattern in a continuum of exchange.From the border of the skin to the technologies of abjection in film and literature, from Lovecraft's cosmic exteriors to Cronenberg's rewriting of the flesh, Ash shows how horror refuses the cultural labor of concealment. The result is both a diagnostic of the human condition as lived through the body and a radical reorientation: we were never souls in containers. We are meat, membrane, microbial community, and temporary organization-matter that has briefly become capable of experiencing itself as a person.When the packaging is stripped away, what remains is not alien. It is us.…