What if your memories weren't yours? What if reality was just another story you told yourself to stay sane?

In Stories from the Other Eye, award-winning writer T.J. Stephens delivers a searing, dreamlike mosaic of fractured lives-teenagers lost in the woods, veterans haunted by war, lovers drowning in regret, and survivors clawing their way back from the edge of oblivion.

Through lyrical prose and uncanny narrative shifts, these interconnected tales blur the line between hallucination and truth. A boy saves a woman from suicide-only to become her captor. A cancer survivor battles immunotherapy-induced encephalitis, slipping into a waking nightmare where brothels, drug deals, and family betrayals feel terrifyingly real. A man watches his lover leap from a balcony, then questions whether he ever existed at all.

This is not escapism. This is excavation.

Stephens doesn't just write about trauma-he rebuilds it in language, letting readers feel the vertigo of dissociation, the ache of longing, and the fragile hope that lingers even in the darkest corners of the human psyche.

For readers who appreciate:

• The emotional precision of Raymond Carver
• The surreal intensity of Haruki Murakami
• The moral ambiguity of Flannery O'Connor
• Books that linger long after the last page

If you've ever wondered how memory shapes identity-or how easily both can unravel-this collection will leave you breathless, unsettled, and profoundly moved.

Scroll up and click "Buy Now" to step through the looking glass-and see the world through the other eye.