MOODY WATER PRESS / AN INDEPENDENT LITERARY IMPRINT
Stories beneath
the surface.
Some stories begin with a photograph.
Others with something we thought we had lost.
01 / THE NOVEL
FishEyeThe Story of Loi and Gibson
Not everything
missing is lost.
A young woman. An extraordinary goldfish. A world of small mysteries hiding in plain sight.
Through the lens of her Diana camera, Loi notices what others pass by. When Gibson enters her life, an unexpected friendship begins to change how she sees everything.
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FISHEYE / AUDIOBOOK EXCERPT
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THE STORY / FISHEYE
The things
we overlook.
Loi notices things other people overlook. She sees the world through her Diana camera, preserving moments in photographs even as parts of her own past remain out of reach.
One day, an unassuming goldfish catches her attention in a pet shop. She takes him home and calls him Gibson.
Their unlikely companionship opens the door to a series of mysteries. Some photographs seem to conceal what was plainly there. Anonymous orange letters arrive with fragments of meaning. And a circle of vivid, sometimes eccentric people begins to lead Loi towards answers she has never known how to ask for.
Moving between the intimate and the extraordinary, FishEye — The Story of Loi and Gibson is a character-led literary novel with a quietly magical edge. At its heart is a simple question: what makes a home, and who gets to call it theirs?
A BOOK TO GET LOST IN
A story you can hold.
A novel about the things we find, the people we meet, and the questions that stay with us.
READ FISHEYE ↗A STORY ABOUT THE UNEXPECTED
Look closer.
Look again.
A fish tank. A fleeting reflection. A moment that refuses to disappear.
02 / WORDS FROM THE NOVEL
Between the lines.
Fragments from FishEye — The Story of Loi and Gibson.
I think about her words often.
FISHEYE / AN EXCERPT
Especially the other one.
“Those who know exactly don't have the answer.”
Rose closed both her hands around mine.
“Do you feel anything?”
“I hadn't planned on bringing anyone home that day.”
FISHEYE / AN EXCERPT
“The anonymous letter. It arrived this morning and I told myself I'd deal with it later, and later has now arrived and I still have no idea what to do with it.”
FISHEYE / AN EXCERPT
03 / FIELD NOTES
The world
behind the words.
A visual notebook of photographs made during travels and research. Not illustrations of the plot, but fragments of the real world: strange coincidences, places, light, and the details that make a storyteller stop.
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY / ULF HEDETOFT
Every surface
hides another world.
An image can hold a feeling long after the moment itself has passed.
OBSERVATIONS / 002—006
Collected moments.
FIELD NOTES / WOMEN, ART & ENCOUNTERS
The feminine gaze.
Faces, gestures and passing moments — a visual counterpoint to the fictional world of Loi.
FIELD NOTES / ART IN THE STREET
Faces & messages.
FIELD NOTE 007 / THE JOURNEY
Stories happen
along the way.
Places become memories. Memories become questions. And sometimes, questions become fiction.
Every crowd
holds a story.
ITALY / FROM THE AUTHOR'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE
FROM THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL PHOTO ARCHIVEMOODY WATER PRESS
Stay a little
longer.
Stories that stay beneath the surface.
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