Bronze and Fever
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Completed, First published May 16, 2026

This novel traces lives shadowed by illness and constrained by circumstance. In chapters spanning bleak poverty and tense family confrontations, *Bronze and Fever* introduces characters struggling with both personal identity and societal expectation. One narrative follows a young man caring for a bedridden mother, navigating hardship and self-presentation in a world of desperation. Another depicts a son’s clash with his father over future ambitions, revealing a brutal conflict fueled by grief and the demand for obedience. These chapters hint at a world where even small comforts – represented by a few bronze coins – feel desperately out of reach, and where quiet anxieties are punctuated by unsettling omens.
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