Decknine Stories

After choosing to let Arcadia Bay fall, Max Caulfield leaves the town before the wreckage can harden into memory. Grief follows her anyway. In the years that come, Max drifts through cities, through relationships, through a version of herself defined by restraint, refusing to rewind time even when instinct begs her to. As her powers fade and fracture, so does her sense of purpose, until she is forced to confront what it means to witness tragedy without trying to erase it. Through photography, distance, and difficult choices made in the present, Max slowly learns to live forward to remember without being consumed, to let go without forgetting. When she arrives at Caledon University, she is no longer the girl who tried to fix the world, but someone willing to face it as it is, carrying Arcadia Bay not as a wound, but as a part of her