Aster-Sky
A heart piercing, darkly tender collection about people who are trying to survive what the world and their own minds have done to them.
Compilation of Short Stories by Aster Sky brings together ten emotionally intense tales about identity, grief, love, and the quiet violence of being unseen. From a girl who survives human trafficking and learns that choosing to live is its own kind of rebellion, to a disabled boy whose entire world becomes a stray cat, to a young man whose very existence is erased by a town that feeds on forgotten people, each story asks the same fragile question: What does it mean to deserve a future?
These stories move between realism and psychological horror between soft moments of connection and devastating loss, showing broken families, chosen families, queer identity, trauma, guilt, and the courage to keep breathing when everything feels unbearable. It is not a collection about heroes. It is a collection about ordinary people who stay alive, speak up, remember, and love sometimes just long enough to change someone else's life.