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Recognition

By: Dylan Goddard
Narrated by: Elizabeth P. Stevenson
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Two strangers meet on a train and share a conversation that changes them both.

He’s running from the numbness of a life he no longer recognizes.

She’s running from a grief that refuses to fade.

What follows is a brief, incandescent connection — one that lingers long after the train stops.

Told in quiet fragments and aching silences, Recognition is a meditation on loss, memory, and the fleeting mercy of being seen by another human being. It moves from train carriages and rain-streaked cafés to motel rooms, bars, and night shifts — lives intersecting in the aftermath of love and the persistence of grief.

Raw, spare, and devastatingly human, this is literary fiction stripped to the bone — a story for anyone who has ever met someone too late, or loved someone they could not keep.

©2025 Dylan Goddard (P)2025 Dylan Goddard
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