After The Harvest

When the crew is killed in a catastrophic crash landing on a remote mining planet, Carol finds herself utterly alone — with three years to wait before rescue arrives. To survive, she does the only thing she can: she grows things. A small habitat garden becomes her lifeline, her purpose, and her sanity. Through meticulous schedules, careful harvests, and relentless documentation, Carol keeps herself and her plants alive through the long, crushing silence. But isolation has a way of reshaping the mind. Slowly, Carol begins to hear voices, receive notes of encouragement, and hold conversations with crewmates who were never there — and she believes every word of it. When the truth finally breaks through, she must face the most difficult harvest of all: the stark reality that she has been completely alone from the very beginning. After the Harvest is a quiet, haunting story about the lengths the human mind will go to survive — and what it truly costs to come back.