The Echoes of Me is not a tale of multiverse heroics. It is a quiet collision of memory and possibility—a journey through lives unlived, words unsaid, and selves forgotten. In this haunting, deeply personal novel, a writer finds himself wandering between realities, meeting the infinite variations of who he could have been. Some are thriving. Some are broken. One is missing entirely.
Each chapter is a new life. Each life is a mirror. Some crack. Some shatter. All reflect something true.
This is not a quest to change the past. It is an act of bearing witness—to grief, guilt, healing, and the fragile thread of identity that binds every echo together.
From childhood fears to grown-up regrets, from strangers in familiar faces to confrontations with the self, The Echoes of Me is a story for anyone who’s ever asked, “What if I had turned left instead of right?”—and then stayed awake long into the night, listening for the answer.
This isn’t science fiction. It’s soul fiction.
Ricky Firman is a writer drawn to the in-between spaces—where memory blurs, identity fractures, and reality bends. With a voice that blends emotional honesty and quiet existentialism, he explores what it means to live with ghosts of the self, and what remains when all the noise is stripped away. The Echoes of Me is his most personal work to date, crafted from both imagination and the wounds we carry across timelines.
When not writing, Ricky finds peace in the ordinary: a quiet evening with his wife Sofia, a long walk with his dogs, or the stillness between books.