Where the light doesn't reach

Reese is three months behind on the rent, he doesn't have any money to buy himself tonight's dinner and his little sister is still in hospital, relying on him to pay for the treatment of her illness. To top it all, he's just been fired, only a week after having been dumped by his latest girlfriend. Life just cannot get any worse. By tomorrow, he'll be out on the streets like a stray dog.

Not wanting to live like some kind of beggar while standing in the pouring rain, he thinks about how much easier it would be if he could just end it all. Waiting at the crossing for the lights to turn green, he doesn't immediately register the honking horn of a huge truck that lost its grip on the road as it barrelled straight towards the girl standing a few feet away. In the split second it takes for the truck to skid into her, he finds himself jumping in to shield her. Bracing himself, the impact is as harsh as is impossible to imagine, what he never bargained for though, was the fact that, knocked out of his body, he finds himself looking upon the scene of the accident, frozen in a twilight realm.