Literary Speculative Fiction · First Edition, 2026
Everyone agrees it never existed.
Daniel remembers it clearly.
After a car accident, Daniel wakes having lost ember — a sense of lingering warmth he remembers clearly, and no one else remembers at all. Unable to find proof through any of the ways he's supposed to look, he starts looking in ways he isn't.
Who It’s For
Grounded speculative fiction for readers who care about what the impossible does to ordinary life.
This is less about solving a puzzle than living with one: what happens when certainty, evidence and trust stop lining up?
- Strange premises grounded in ordinary life
- Relationships under pressure
- Memory, perception and doubt
- Dry humour alongside emotional tension
- Northern Ontario settings that matter to the story
Why It Connects
The impossible part isn’t the point.
Fading Ember uses a speculative mystery to explore what happens to a marriage, a career, and a person’s trust in himself when something he knows to be true cannot be proven to anyone else.
Northern Ontario
A strange story in familiar places.
Sudbury, North Bay and Marten River are not backdrops imported for atmosphere. They are the ordinary roads, homes, workplaces and cottage country where Daniel’s impossible problem unfolds.