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Some stories aren’t told in grand declarations but in the spaces where love remains, the soft scrape of a chair drawn closer, the way a name feels when you’ve swallowed it too many times.
They weren’t meant to be extraordinary. No tragic fates. No cosmic signs. Just the pull of two souls orbiting each other, too afraid to collide, too entangled to part.
But love is never simple. Not when the world demands bargains, when futures splinter like kindling, when hearts are rationed like stolen breath.
Told in lush, immersive prose, Gaze of Grace is a novel for those who have spoken their love into the dark, for the ones who stayed too long or left too soon. A story of silent catastrophes, longing, and the impossible choice between holding on and setting someone free.
DRAB TOAD
Drab Toad writes about love in its rawest form, the kind that stays around in silences, lives in half-finished conversations, and leaves behind traces long after it’s gone. With a prose style that is both poetic and unflinching, his stories explore longing, vulnerability, and the losses that shape us.
A storyteller by instinct and an observer at heart, he delves into the tender spaces between people, the hesitation before a touch, the weight of an unsaid word, the beauty of the almost. His debut novel, Gaze of Grace, is meant to honor to people who have experienced intense love and silent loss, it portrays the pain of desire and the inevitability of parting.
When not writing, he can be found curating thoughts on love and life through his Instagram page, @thedrabstories.
