A Father's Tale

De: Henry Collins

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Don has built a life that works.

The house runs smoothly. The business is successful. His family is provided for. Every risk has been managed, every variable accounted for. From the outside, it looks like stability. From the inside, it feels like vigilance that never switches off.

Each evening, Don drinks to quiet his thoughts, convinced it helps him stay steady, present, in control. But when a handful of ordinary family moments begin to go wrong, a sharp comment, an argument that won’t resolve, a silence that lingers too long, the careful structure he’s relied on starts to crack.

What follows is not a dramatic collapse, but something more unsettling: Don is forced to watch himself clearly. To see how love has been replaced by routine, how protection has become distance, and how a future he assumed was secure is already slipping beyond his reach.

A Father’s Tale is a psychologically intimate literary novel about marriage, parenthood, work, and the quiet damage caused by good intentions left unexamined. Inspired by the moral architecture of A Christmas Carol, it replaces ghosts with memory and redemption with accountability.

This is not a story about fixing everything.

It’s about what remains when a man stops escaping and chooses to stay.

For readers who love emotionally intense, character-driven fiction and endings that linger long after the final page, A Father’s Tale asks a powerful question: What if doing everything right is not the same as being there?