A chapter-by-chapter journey through Confessions to the Empty Chair — Anthony Adoré’s memoir of spiritual combat, buried childhood wounds, desire, and the slow, stubborn work of grace. These reflections open the book’s world without giving away its turns, and invite you to step inside.
In a rocking chair with whiskey and colored lights, a soul decides never to be vulnerable again—and keeps that vow forever.
The desperate mathematics of trying to argue someone back into caring, and the brutal silence when heaven refuses to resurrect what has chosen death.
A young man tries to argue his way back into love through historical facts and theological precision, wielding reason against the body's knowledge of rejection.
When death enters the family home, a young man discovers his terrible defense: using women's flesh as shield against the silence of the grave.
When another's body becomes unbearable, we scrub at surfaces that cannot be made pure. The swamp we flee lives inside us all.
In a cramped dorm and a battered notebook, a young man tries to hold together divine terror, sexual farce, and a self chosen for disappearance.
A West Texas boy collides with intellectual hierarchy at a Catholic university. His public school confidence crumbles against doctoral standards and classmates fluent in ancient texts.
When practical concerns about the future arrive in quiet conversation, they carry enough weight to murder spiritual dreams without drama or refusal.
When flesh threatens to dissolve careful equations, the violated soul calculates angles of escape from the very intimacy it craves.
