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Onissimo Konde

Onissimo “Simo” Konde writes from the knowledge that a life can be divided and still expected to function. Fracture is not an event in his work but a ground motive, the subtle condition that shapes how people speak, love, parent, and endure. His characters often move through rooms as if the floor might shift. They learn early to read moods, to anticipate, to edit themselves mid sentence. In his world, composure is rarely peace. It is a skill, sometimes a shield, sometimes a wound.

This is why his writing pays such close attention to thresholds. The moment before a message is sent. The silence after a joke that lands slightly wrong. The ordinary ritual that keeps someone from falling apart. He is drawn to the small mechanics of coping, the ways grief becomes habit, the ways longing disguises itself as competence, the ways devotion can exist alongside resentment without cancelling either. Rather than stage emotional spectacle, he builds pressure through the everyday, showing how breakdowns are often quiet, and how recovery is rarely dramatic.

His philosophy is simple and demanding. Tell the truth at the scale it is lived. Let contradiction stand. Let tenderness share the page with anger. Let humour be a survival tool, not an escape. He writes with an ear for cadence and repetition, allowing motifs to return like refrains, and trusting implication to do what explanation cannot.

Quiet Disasters and Other Miracles embodies this approach through monologues and microscenes where private crises are treated with dignity, and survival looks like small, stubborn returns. His forthcoming novel, From The Top, Down, extends the same sensibility into questions of legacy and control, tracing what it costs to remain yourself inside systems that reward performance.