The Things We Shouldn't Know: Stories of Ordinary Lives and Impossible Things - Softcover

Nicholson, Wayne

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798172744594

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What would you do with knowledge you were never meant to possess?

A voicemail from a disconnected phone. A letter delivered one day too soon. A stranger who remembers a relationship that hasn’t happened yet. A bus stop where waiting becomes something more than ordinary. A minute of stopped time no one else can enter.

In The Things We Shouldn’t Know, Wayne Nicholson brings together eight literary speculative stories in which the impossible arrives quietly, slipping into kitchens, diners, grocery stores, city buses, hospital rooms, and familiar conversations.

The people at the center of these stories aren’t heroes or seekers of mystery. They are ordinary men and women confronted with something they can’t explain—and forced to decide what responsibility comes with knowing more than they should.

At turns unsettling, tender, strange, and deeply human, these stories explore memory, choice, regret, love, and the small fractures in everyday life through which the extraordinary sometimes enters.

For readers who enjoy thoughtful speculative fiction, quiet supernatural stories, and tales that linger after the final page.

The ordinary world is not always as settled as it seems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798172744594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227