Novel / literary fiction
The Sound of Clatter
A Judas story, not about betrayal alone, but about the noise a soul makes when it falls apart.
Status
In development
Form
Novel / literary fiction
Tone
Biblical, strange, wounded, darkly human
Synopsis
What it is
The Sound of Clatter reimagines Judas through a deeply human lens. It is not interested in a cardboard villain. It asks what betrayal sounds like from inside the body of the betrayer, what shame does to memory, and whether a doomed man can still be understood without being excused. The story carries a biblical weight, but its heartbeat is painfully human.
Reader
Who it may be for
For readers drawn to biblical retellings, moral fracture, spiritual dread, doomed characters, and literary fiction that refuses easy villains.
Themes
What it circles
Sample Passage
“There are coins that do not shine after they are touched. There are sounds a man hears once and then carries inside his skull forever.”
Author Note
This is not a defense of Judas. It is a refusal to let him remain only a silhouette.
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