DEFERRED

At 2:34 a.m., Miracle wakes up with a splitting headache after dreaming that an axe struck the middle of her head. By morning, she is declared dead. Mourned by her family, prayed over at church, and placed inside a mortuary among the dead, Miracle's story should have ended there, but it didn't. When she wakes up alive, her return shocks an entire community. What should have been celebrated as a miracle slowly becomes a curse. Whispers follow her through school corridors. Friends disappear. Fear replaces sympathy. And suddenly, surviving death becomes more painful than dying itself.Based on a true story, Deferred is a haunting, emotional, and unforgettable psychological drama about grief, fear, faith, trauma, and the cruel aftermath of coming back from a place people believe nobody should ever return from. Because sometimes death is not denied, Only deferred.

Pages: 57, Paperback, Independently published