Literary Fiction Novelist & Storyteller
Meiyen Kennedy
I believe that words have extraordinary power. They can challenge what we accept, give shape to what we struggle to name, awaken something we have allowed to become quiet, and remain with us long after the final page is turned. A story may be imagined, but what it reveals does not have to be.
Debut Novel
The Undistancing
What if you could experience the consequences of a choice before you made it?Not only what that choice would mean for you—but what it would mean for everyone it touched.In The Undistancing, Dr. Elle Sterling helped create Eden, a revolutionary immersive technology designed to offer healing, peace, and escape. But buried within the system is something far more powerful: the ability to reveal the unseen consequences of human decisions.When Eden begins doing exactly that, the distance between choice and consequence starts to disappear.Governments want control. Institutions fear what happens when people can no longer claim they didn't know. And Elle is forced to confront the question at the center of everything she and her brother created:What would people choose if they had to see?The Undistancing is a thought-provoking speculative novel about empathy, responsibility, redemption, and the invisible ways our lives intersect.Because every choice touches someone.Sometimes, we just never get to see who.
Some writers keep their distance. This one doesn't. Rooted in the tradition of literary fiction that takes interiority seriously, the work explores what it costs to be present — to a person, a place, a sentence. The Undistancing is the first novel. More are coming.
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