Literary & Spiritual Fiction
Stories about suffering, illusion, and awakening.
"Time doesn't heal. It just passes. What heals is what you do with the time."
— The Veil of Ashes
Debut Novel · Coming Fall 2026
A Novel
A single flake of ash appears where none should exist.
For thirty-two years Marcus Thorne has returned to the same rituals, the same priest, the same promise of safety. When a stranger named Lívia claims the ash is not protection but a chain, the binding begins to burn.
What follows is not escape, but reckoning — with memory, with the body that remembers, with the quiet machinery that turns grief into power.
"You were promised safety, but safety is the first lie."
For readers of Donna Tartt, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Hanya Yanagihara
"Trauma begets trauma. We pass it on like inheritance, dressed up as love."
— The Veil of Ashes
The Author
Erik W. Krogstad writes fiction concerned with the interior lives people rarely speak about. His work explores suffering not as punishment, but as a threshold.
He does not teach. He writes.
"The first time Marcus saw the devil, he was seven years old, and the devil was smiling."
— The Veil of Ashes