My Life Hereafter

For seventeen years, Sunel's closest companion has been a secret—an invisible man perched on her shoulder, constant and quietly advising. His presence has always felt harmless, perhaps even helpful, a steady murmur of guidance she learned to accept as part of herself.

Then the bus went over the bridge. In a blinding flash of light and shrieking metal, everything shattered. 

Sunel expected darkness after the plunge. Instead, she wakes to a world that looks almost unchanged. The students survived. The sky is still blue. The valley stretches wide and silent beneath it.

And yet something is terribly wrong.