The Quiet Years. On Friendship, Distance, and Growing Up - Stefan Berger

The quiet years are the years in which everything shifts, without anyone noticing.

These short stories follow teenage boys who learn to live with shadows, with memories, with the changes that happen between people. They are about friendships that transform, about words that carry weight, about loss and pain, and about moments that are barely visible and yet linger for a long time.

Three quiet stories about becoming.

What Remains When August Ends
In one last shared summer, two best friends must learn that friendship is allowed to change-even when letting go hurts.

By the River
When Marc confesses his feelings to his best friend, their familiar closeness breaks apart-and both must learn how to live with the loss of what used to be.

The Three of Us?
A boy watches his best friend fall in love and learns that closeness does not diminish when it is shared.