THE VICISSITUDE
A young Don sits on a West Texas ranch beneath the Milky Way, looking up at Josie's faint face among the stars.

A NOVEL BY TITAN NASH

The Vicissitude

A lifetime together.
A world he cannot remember.

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WEST TEXAS · 1984

THE STORY

What if the love of your life
was a life you had forgotten?

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Don was never sure why he felt he had already met the love of his life. He had felt this way since he was a preteen. He also felt much older and wiser than his years, something he never quite understood.

Then one day, Don received an email from a woman named Josie, who claimed to have known him all his life. After pressing him to remember her, she told him she was the one who had abducted him as a child—something Don remembered but never spoke of, because no one had ever believed him.

Josie claimed that she and Don were soulmates and had lived a lifetime together on her planet. She told Don she had been required to return him to his life on Earth, giving up the love of her life. Now she had returned to take him back to her planet and their life together, if he wanted. She was dying and wished to spend her last days with him.

This left Don with a dilemma: should he return to Josie, not knowing the risks or what he might lose on Earth, or stay and never know this other life he had lived?

BEHIND THE TITLE

Vicissitude

vi·cis·si·tude noun

A change in circumstances or fortune;
one of life’s unexpected turns.

WITHIN THE NOVEL

“The Vicissitude” is the process that brings humans from Earth through a wormhole to Trinial.

Josie chose its name. Her people’s experiences with Liv—the element threatening their survival—are their true vicissitudes: unwelcome changes in circumstance or fortune.

She named the process intended to overcome those circumstances after the hardship itself: The Vicissitude. Singular, rather than plural.

FROM TITAN NASH

Writing Journal

A journal of the writing, the revisions,
and the moments behind the story.

WHERE THE BOOK IS NOW

Listening. Revising. Moving forward.

The manuscript is with beta readers, and I’ve begun revising the book based on their feedback.

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