Of Beginnings and Ends is a Soul-Making Keats Literary Award-winning novel, published September 8, 2026 by Deuxmers.
This story is a telography. I coined the term for the genre, because there was none for these types of “soul stories.” The terms derives from the Greek telos (end or purpose) and graphia (writing). They are an account of one’s becoming.
The story takes places in the Hall of Beginnings and Ends. A liminal space for a liminal state. (I can’t seem to get away form them.) Here’s sneak peek of the back cover copy:
In every ending waits a new beginning.
Evy has always been able to feel the hidden sorrow of others. One day, she reaches out to a stranger drowning in his grief and is whisked away to the vast and luminous Hall of Beginnings and Ends.
The hall demands a choice. Evy must pass through a mist-shrouded arch to her best path forward or through a side door offering her a detour. Either way, pain awaits—the crucible of transformation or the slow decay of refusing to change.
Across the years, Evy returns to the hall without warning, always met with the same demand. Choose. Each time, she is plunged into strange realms uncomfortably familiar, where her hopes and fears, beliefs and doubts take shape as uncanny landscapes and characters who seem to know her better than she knows herself.
Witty, numinous, and deeply human, Of Beginnings and Ends is a reckoning with the painful crossroads of existence, and an ode to the courage it takes to embrace every ending as the threshold of a new beginning.
D. Donovan, writing for Midwest Book Review, says, “S. K. Kruse’s thought-provoking and humorous portrait of Everywoman Evy and her soul-searching quest is a riveting philosophical, spiritual, and psychological saga that not many writers could have produced.”
For readers who loved the architecture of Piranesi or the aching what-ifs of The Other Valley, this is a story built in the same country — the betwixt and between.
Available in hardcover, softcover, and ebook on September 8, 2026.
Hardcover · 978-1-944521-58-5 · $27
Softcover · 978-1-944521-26-4 · $14.95
ebook · 978-1-944521-27-1 · $8.99 ($.99 for first two weeks)