The Silence Between Heartbeats

In a town where nothing ever truly happens, the quiet is deceptive.After a near-fatal accident, Lila Hart begins noticing something no one else can hear-the silence between heartbeats. Not just her own, but everyone's. In those brief, unnatural pauses, the world seems to... shift. People freeze mid-motion. Sounds vanish. And something unseen moves in the stillness.At first, it feels like a side effect of trauma. A glitch in her mind. But the longer she listens, the more precise the silence becomes-and the more it begins to whisper back.Drawn into a reality that exists in the spaces no one else can perceive, Lila uncovers a presence that lives between life's most fragile moments. It watches. It waits. And it has been closer to her than she ever realized.As her grip on time, memory, and identity begins to fracture, Lila must decide whether to fight the silence... or become part of it.Because some things don't exist in the noise of life-They exist in the moments where everything stops.