Drizzle in the City and Other Stories

<p>Drizzle in the City and Other Stories is a tender atmospheric collection of quiet reckonings and long-awaited returns. In these pages author Alvin E. Lauran invites readers to walk through rain-soaked streets forgotten corridors and hushed train stations-places where memory lingers and second chances often arrive without warning.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From a former teacher rediscovering his purpose under the awning of a Quiapo pawnshop to a twin who returns home wearing another man's name each story is steeped in silence loss and the soft resilience that follows heartbreak. Here the rain is more than backdrop-it is witness healer and companion to the unloved the unseen and the enduringly hopeful.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Lauran writes with the heart of a survivor and the precision of a poet crafting narratives that echo long after the final page. His characters are ordinary people carrying extraordinary weight-proof that sometimes the smallest acts of kindness and courage happen when no one is watching.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Whether it's an old man waiting for a promise in the drizzle a girl behind a piano heard but never seen or a potter passing down a legacy shaped in silence this collection offers light in the fog-one delicate story at a time.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>For readers who find solace in the slow unfolding of emotion Drizzle in the City and Other Stories is a gentle companion: quiet reflective and unforgettable. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p>