Always an After
She wakes in darkness, with no memory of her identity, and only slowly begins to piece together why she is lying in a car trunk, wrapped in plastic...
"Always an After" is a 3,200 word short story. It originally appeared in the 2021 anthology In Somnio: A Collection of Modern Gothic Horror, edited by Alex Woodroe.
Cover photo: Valeriia Neganova.
Content warning: Death, decomposition, memory loss, parental death, terminal cancer
The story can be downloaded as a PDF and EPUB (generic and device-specific versions are available).