An Alcoholic's Journal

Mark Anthony Cronin
Fiction
206 pgs.
2024
Paperback

Eight narratives arranged with care, each tracking a person caught at a moment where something ordinary stops working: a job, a body, a relationship, a habit of thought. The stories speak to one another obliquely—through repeated situations, shared pressures, and decisions made a beat too late—until a larger pattern begins to form. What binds them is less a common theme than a shared condition: lives narrowed by circumstance, attention fixed on what cannot be undone, and the quiet persistence of time moving forward regardless.