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A Crow's Chronicle
The Shadows We Call Home
A Tale of Transformation and the Pursuit of Truth
A philosophical fantasy novella offering a contemplative exploration of identity, transformation, and the unseen forces that shape us.
The Brightest Lie
A Tale of Deception and Discovery
The sequel to 'The Shadows We Call Home' and the conclusion to 'A Crow's Chronicle'
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The philosophy
Think better. See clearer.
Life is strange enough before the mind gets involved.Then the mind arrives with its stories, its warnings, its theories, its old wounds, and its deeply unnecessary commentary on everything you have ever done. It takes memory, fear, desire and habit, mixes them together, and presents the result as reality.And most of the time, we believe it.We believe the panic. We believe the role. We believe the version of ourselves we have been repeating for so long that it starts to feel permanent. We look at life through the fog of our own thoughts and forget that we are looking through anything at all.That is where the illusion begins.Not because life is fake, but because the version of life we experience is shaped by the mind experiencing it. We do not simply meet the world. We interpret it. We colour it. We argue with it. We drag the past into it and call it instinct. We throw fear into the future and call it fate.But seeing the illusion is not the end of the story.That is the brighter, trickier lie: the idea that once you understand the mind, you somehow rise above being human. That there is a final answer, a perfect peace, a clean little state of wisdom where nothing hurts, nothing frightens you, and nothing drags you back into the mess.Lovely idea.Complete nonsense.You are still here. Still human. Still full of longing, doubt, grief, anger, love, confusion, and the occasional dramatic overreaction to something fairly minor. The point is not to escape life. The point is to stop being owned by every story your mind tries to sell you.To feel something without becoming it. To remember something without living inside it. To face the unknown without pretending it has already decided who you are.You are the witness, the fool, the author with ink on your hands and no guarantee the next sentence will behave.So when the mind starts preaching doom, destiny, certainty and other dramatic rubbish, you pause. You see the story for what it is. You smile, if you’re feeling theatrical.And you say:Phunk that.Then you keep going.Not because life is simple.Because it is yours to meet.
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About the author
Kieron J. Prescott is an insurance underwriter who’s spent years quietly navigating the contradictions of modern life - chasing certainty while craving meaning, playing it safe while secretly dreaming. The questions were always there. He just needed a way to express his thoughts on the matter.Rather than pretending to have all the answers, he decided to write something that explored the human condition honestly - with curiosity, vulnerability, and a bit of edge. That project became "A Crow's Chronicle", a two-part surreal allegory about perception, belief, and rewriting the stories we live by.To make those ideas more fun and accessible, he turned to cartoon characters and visual metaphors - symbols that carry weight without taking themselves too seriously. The books, the artwork, his Instagram and this site are all part of the same experiment: to see if philosophy can be strange, playful, and maybe even a little beautiful.
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