After the Umbrella

A Novel of Fragments and Erasure

It starts with a murder on the Downtown train. Then Mara blinks, and it is Monday morning again.

She didn't wake up, because she never fell asleep.

Mara's bedroom exists on two planes simultaneously. On one side, a quiet apartment. On the other, an impossible subway platform where it has been raining for fifteen years.

Trapped in the space between, she has found a strange peace in the collapse of boundaries. But as the walls begin to flicker and her reflection shows a woman she no longer recognizes, she realizes that the loop protecting her from unbearable truth is beginning to decay.

The voice promising salvation might be the very thing keeping the door locked.

Is this a sanctuary, or a prison built from her own grief?

A psychological horror-thriller exploring the terrifying distance between mercy and manipulation. For fans of Sharp Objects, Mexican Gothic, and Tender is the Flesh.

Step into the station. But mind the gap.