The Light After is a novella about silence, about a kind of rescue that comes not from outside, but from within-and about words that remain even when there was no cry for help.

At the heart of the story is a child's diary, found drifting at sea. A few pages, wet and fragile, become the reason for one man to go back into the ocean-not to save someone, but to remember who he is.

This is not a story of catastrophe. This is a story about how to be heard is to remain.

And sometimes, an empty page is exactly how something ends.