Author · Southern Colorado
Writing that finds the transcendent
in the quietly human.
Fiction rooted in tension and consequence. Nonfiction that traces the interior life. Stories that ask what it means to be fully present inside your own existence.
Teacher. Prophet. Rabbi.
Three people at the end of themselves.
One stranger on the road.
A son who walked away from everything his father built. A woman who spent twelve years bleeding, unseen beyond her own walls. A father who watched a fever take hold of his only child. Three lives, three long-held aches — and all of them, at last, meeting the same man.
Scripture gives their stories a handful of verses — the bones of a thing. The Encounter imagines the breath between those bones: the years before the moment, the desperation carried into it, and the long walk home after.
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Read the Opening →Companion Volume
Some books end when you close them.
This one doesn’t.
A chapter-by-chapter companion for a second reading: short orientations, questions that open rather than test, and a final section — The Well — that draws the whole hidden design up into the light, once you’ve walked back through the three lives to earn it.
No score. No right answers. Just a way of listening.
Read the novel first. Then turn the page, and go deeper.
More About the Companion →Also by Hamilton Bird
Hamilton Alan Bird writes fiction shaped by tension and consequence, nonfiction concerned with the interior life, and children’s books under the name Maux Jaux.
He lives in Southern Colorado, where quiet has a way of telling the truth. He spent nine years incarcerated — an experience that changed how he listens, and how he understands the difference between captivity and freedom.
Gravity and Friction is his first work of nonfiction.
“I know captivity in two dialects — the clang and the whisper. The overt and the invisible. That’s why I recognized the digital version when it spoke in a softer voice.”— from the Preface to Gravity and Friction
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