Sad Dinner is a literary novel that explores love, memory, and the irreversible nature of lived experience through a grounded yet conceptually unique return to the past.
Enzo wakes to a life he already lived. His fifty year old mind in his nineteen year old body, the pain of age gone, replaced by the clarity of youth and the impossible presence of the woman he never stopped loving.
Emma is there too, carrying the same weight of a life already lived.
They have been given a return to the beginning. Not to change it, but to experience it again with full awareness of everything that followed. The lives they built. The people they became. The consequences that extended far beyond their relationship.
For a moment, they let themselves have what they lost.
But Sad Dinner is not a story about fixing the past. It is a story about understanding it and recognizing that some things only exist because others did not last.
A surreal yet emotionally grounded work of literary fiction, Sad Dinner examines the tension between love and consequence, memory and identity, and what it means to experience something again when you already know how it ends.
Sad Dinner is a literary time fractured love story about two people who return to their past with full memory of the lives they already lived. As they relive the moments that once defined them, they are forced to confront the cost of what came after: the futures, identities, and people that only exist because their love did not last.
What if you could return to the moment before everything changed and remember exactly how it ends?
Love and consequence
Memory as lived experience
Irreversibility of time
Identity shaped across time
Emotional awareness vs control
The cost of second chances
Literary Fiction
Psychological Fiction
Speculative (Conceptual, not technical)
Time-based narrative without mechanics
Sad Dinner blends grounded realism with a subtle conceptual premise, focusing on emotional depth rather than plot driven spectacle.
R. Morello
R. Morello writes psychologically driven literary fiction that explores identity, perception, and emotional continuity. His work focuses on how internal experience shapes reality, often blending grounded storytelling with conceptual frameworks.
Cathedral Rocks Publishing
Cathedral Rocks Publishing is an independent imprint focused on psychologically immersive and conceptually driven fiction. Its works explore the intersection of memory, identity, and emotional reality through literary storytelling.
Title: Sad Dinner
Author: R. Morello
Publisher: Cathedral Rocks Publishing
Format: Print and E-book
ISBN: 979-8254081722
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E-book:
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Cathedral Rocks Publishing
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Cathedral Rocks Publishing is an independent press dedicated to psychologically driven and conceptually ambitious fiction. Its publications explore the intersection of identity, memory, and emotional reality, creating immersive narratives that blend literary depth with subtle speculative elements.
