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About this Book:
Ethan Carr hosts a modest podcast about religion, science, and the quiet absence of meaning. One night, after clicking an advertisement he doesn’t remember seeking out, he is drawn into a conversation that refuses to stay theoretical.
The voice on the recording calls itself Yahweh.
What follows is not a revelation or a sermon, but a series of uneasy conversations—interrupted, challenged, and often resisted. The presence speaking to Ethan is diminished, reflective, and unwilling to justify itself. As Ethan presses back, the dialogue becomes a reckoning: with suffering, with belief, and with the long consequences of being listened to.
A Testament of Sorrow is a novel about grief and responsibility, doubt and attention. It explores why suffering persists, how meaning fractures under pressure, and what remains when certainty fails. Moving between intimate recorded conversations and their quiet ripple effects in the world beyond them, the story examines faith not as doctrine, but as confrontation—and asks what it means to stay present when answers do not arrive.
About this Book:
The Sorter is a dark, satirical novel about what happens when moral certainty becomes a system.
In the afterlife, souls are evaluated by fixed rules. Outcomes are final. Mercy is procedural. Albert’s job is to process the dead and enforce a policy he did not create.
As cases pass across his desk, Albert begins to see the cost of perfect consistency—who is excluded, what is ignored, and how easily righteousness hides behind procedure. Questioning the rules is treated as failure.
The Sorter challenges authority, interrogates faith, and exposes the quiet violence of bureaucracy, asking one question: when judgment is efficient and fair, is it still just?
This is not a story about Hell. It’s about Heaven, run exactly as intended.
About the Author
R.F. Parke was raised within an embedded Catholic culture—twelve years of Catholic school, a Catholic family, and an early familiarity with ritual, doctrine, and unanswered questions. As a child, the nuns believed he might become a priest, but he stopped at altar boy. His journey later took him to serve as an infantry officer, where he began examining faith through questions of meaning, suffering, and responsibility, which became far less abstract. After his military service, he trained as an attorney, learning to interrogate assumptions, test narratives, and engage with uncomfortable facts rather than seek tidy answers.
His writing delves into existential fiction that explores religion, myth, and belief not merely as systems to defend or discard, but as forces that shape how people endure loss and make sense of the world. Parke's work is less concerned with certainty than with attention to the complexities of life—and in what remains when inherited answers no longer suffice. In his novels about belief and doubt, he skillfully navigates fiction about faith and authority, inviting readers to reflect on the nuances of authority and the human experience.