Coal & Honey is a collection of seven stories about intimacy, longing, and the damage people carry through their lives.
Set across the United Kingdom, Europe, and South Africa, these stories move between cafés, houses, cars, hotel rooms, and remembered places, following people caught in moments of emotional reckoning. Marriages have settled into silence. Affairs promise escape but deliver something more complicated. Encounters feel briefly transformative before slipping back into memory. The characters are often poised on the edge of change without quite crossing it — looking back, hesitating, returning.
What links the stories in Coal & Honey is not plot but attention. Attention to gesture, to atmosphere, to the small, telling details through which lives subtly reveal themselves. A glance held too long. A conversation that almost says the thing it should. A moment of closeness that lingers long after its meaning has become uncertain.
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