Half the Seed Is Always Watching
By Klaus S. Mithe
A novella of stillness, recursion, and watching the water line.
“The owl did not hoo. It didn’t need to. He had already heard it.”
A man sits still. A seed begins to grow. Outside, the world burns, argues, loops, and forgets.
In a time of recursive media and collapsing attention, one man watches a seed suspended in a glass of water. What begins as ritual becomes recursion, and what begins as care becomes something closer to worship.
Told through the voices of an owl, a seed, a smell, a chessboard, and the lingering echo of a broadcast no one turns off, Half the Seed Is Always Watching is a quiet, recursive novel about stillness, attention, and the radical act of holding still while the world demands noise.
Part allegory, part satire, part prose-poem, this book invites the reader to lean in, listen closer, and remember what it means to wait.
Not all growth moves. Not all silence is absence.
You will hear the owl.
But only if you stop burning dinner.
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