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Temperament: A novella

By: K. Aurum
Narrated by: Ilan Komrad
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The stroke took his hand. The implant gave it back. Then it kept going.Jon Finn was a violinist before a stroke stole his right side and his voice. The experimental device his doctors offer is a quiet miracle: it restores his hand, his speech, his playing. His recovery astonishes the hospital. His bowing has never been cleaner. He and the woman he loves have never fought less.And, note by note, word by word, he is vanishing.The implant doesn’t take his life. It takes his self: smoothing the edges, finishing the sentences, choosing the notes he used to reach for. Everyone sees a man restored. Only Jon feels his own wanting drain away, and asks the question he once asked at his patients’ bedsides: if a man loses more and more of what makes him him, at what point does he stop being himself?Spare, unsettling, and quietly devastating, Temperament is a debut novella about identity, illness, and the hidden cost of being made better; a story that grows shorter and quieter as its narrator disappears. Written by a practicing physician, it lingers where medicine can’t answer: when everything you can do remains, and only the you is gone, is that still you?For readers of Flowers for Algernon, Klara and the Sun, and Never Let Me Go.©2026 K. Aurum (P)2026 K. Aurum Genre Fiction Medical
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