Literary & Spiritual Fiction
Stories about suffering, illusion, and awakening.
"The devil you know feels safer than the liberation you don't."
— The Veil of Ashes
Debut Novel · Available Now
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
"The body remembers, even when the mind has buried the truth."
— 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.
"He did not know yet how closely 'special' could resemble isolation, or how easily 'sacred' could become a command."
— The Veil of Ashes