Buried In The Sky Novels & Stories

The voice on the other end of the line rose, cutting through the speaker so sharply it seemed to rattle the dishes on the table. "I found Julian 440 yards above Camp One, at the bottom of a cliff. His whole body is frozen solid. And he was still clutching a torn piece of note in his hand."

Because if I did— And he wasn’t real— “I saw you,” I said, my voice trembling despite everything. “I saw—” My throat tightened. “I buried you.” The words hung between us. He didn’t react the way I expected. No denial. No confusion. Just… Understanding. “I know,” he said quietly. My chest tightened. “You’re dead,” I whispered. The word felt wrong even as I said it. Because he didn’t look dead. Didn’t feel like absence. He felt like—

I said it without batting an eye. Elias was so mad he could not even speak. Just then, Jeannie's eyes landed on the urn I placed by the grave, still unburied. She picked it up. "Elias, I want to bury Daisy here." She looked at me with a smirk that sent chills down my spine, icy as a snake. "Noelle, my Daisy's gone. You don't need to use a fake urn to hold a spot just to catch Elias's eye. Daisy was a real life, and I hope she finds peace in heaven. So, let's leave this place for her."

Back when the plane crashed, I had used every ounce of strength I had to protect myself, but my kidney was still damaged. Thankfully, I had kept my ability to have children. But she had disappeared into the wreckage without a trace. I forced myself to keep going, searching everywhere for her, imagining that one day we would have a child together. Who could have guessed that the whole thing had been a lie from the very beginning? At the thought, my hand instinctively brushed against the scar on my lower back. I let out a quiet, self-mocking laugh.

“But we stand. We're not going to give up now. We have families to take care of. We have our life and we're not going to let spirits or anyone at all take that from us.” We reached the clearing where we buried Caleb. The ground was undisturbed, but the air above it was colder than the rest. It wrapped around our necks like fingers. I looked up at the sky, overcast, gray, almost metallic. The smell of blood seemed to be lingering about, though there was no clear source of where it came from. The kind of sky that waits. That watches. The kind that was just there telling us that it was counting the seconds. The kind that told us that it was coming, only was using the element of surprise.

Celeste was bawling so hard that her voice had turned hoarse. Tears rolled down Naomi's cheeks as she walked Celeste to the intensive care unit. The doctor informed them that he might never wake up.

"You killed him. You killed them all." Ravel raises her shovel. "Back. Off." The static whispers: *This is your legacy. Ashes and hate.* --- **The Horizon** At dusk, a new signal pierces the sky-a beam of crimson light, miles wide. The ground splits, revealing a city buried for eons, its spires alive with Arbor Prime tech. Eleanor's voice echoes from the ruins. **"You can't outrun the Cycle, Kelly. But you can still be a good mother.**

Zayden jerked his head up A car was stopped right in front of him. He tried to swerve, but the wet, icy road betrayed him. The tires lost grip. The steering wheel spun under his hands. The vehicle skidded across the slick pavement Then everything flipped. Metal screamed. Glass shattered. The world turned upside down. And then... Silence. Cold. Dark. The snow outside continued falling, calm and steady… as his crumpled car lay still on the side of the road. *****

Jack stood there, his emotions swinging wildly from deep sadness to elation, his heart on an emotional roller coaster. He held back this time, realizing that Hannah's relentless behavior would only leave her more deeply wounded. All he needed to do was offer her a warm shoulder when the dust settled, and everything would be alright. As the helicopter faded from Hannah's sight, the dying echo of its blades pounded in her chest like distant thunder. Eventually, she could not stand it anymore and just crumbled.

I died on my birthday, right as the candle melted into a pool of wax. I thought death would end everything, but it didn't. Somehow, I became an invisible and intangible wisp of a ghost drifting through the world. I always found myself uncontrollably drifting back to my ex-girlfriend, Audrey Hades. I watched her pull a failing company back from the brink of bankruptcy and build it all the way to a successful IPO. She transformed from a workplace novice to a rising star of the business world.