After You Were Lost
by Kai Delmas
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After You Were Lost by Kai Delmas
After You Were Lost by Kai Delmas is a haunting collection of dark, emotional short stories where grief takes shape, love lingers beyond death, and the boundary between worlds fractures in unsettling ways.
Across these tales, the ordinary collides with the impossible: time freezes while a desperate lover searches for more moments, the dead reach back through the veil, and broken hearts leave literal voids behind. Each story explores what remains after loss—memory, longing, regret—and refuses to fade.
From quiet, intimate sorrow to cosmic horror and eerie folklore, this collection weaves together themes of death, devotion, and transformation. Whether it’s a grieving soul drawn into darkness, a scientist trapped in endless time, or a child comforted by stories in a starless sky, every piece lingers with emotional weight and chilling imagination.
"After You Were Lost by Kai Delmas is an imaginative and heartbreaking collection of very short stories. These stories explore grief, love, forgetting, time, and strange new worlds. This will plunge you into a new state of mind!"
– Ivy Grimes, author of The Cellar Below the Cellar
“After You Were Lost by Kai Delmas is a journey that takes you through the cycles of demise and sorrow. Delmas explores not only loss, but the love that grew before, and sometimes after. This collection of flash fiction will carve a path straight through your soul and expose the raw nerves that color the world around you. You can eat your pain, but it will always crawl back, ready to feed you again when the shadows whisper your name.”
– C.R. Langille, author of The Worms Shall Feast
“After You Were Lost is a collection of melancholy with the bitterness of regret. Filled with tales of internal turmoil and heartbreak, along with love lost and explorations of age and death. Delmas has created worlds both expansive and emotional in such few words.”
– Ai Jiang, Nebula and Bram Stoker award-winning author
"After You Were Lost is an ethereal and hauntingly beautiful book that will linger in the minds of its readers long after they close the covers. Kai Delmas explores loss, love, and memories through a ghostly lens that gifts readers with short stories packed with both sensitivity and emotional depth. The book is atmospheric, compelling, and filled with moments that are somehow intimate and unsettling at the same time. Delmas’s After You Were Lost is an anthology that readers will want on their shelves so they can revisit its impactful stories again and again."
– Lanson Wells, author
About the Author
Kai Delmas loves creating worlds and magic systems. His fiction can be found in Utopia Science Fiction, Crepuscular, and several Shacklebound anthologies. His debut drabble collection, “Darkness Rises, Hope Remains,” was published by Shacklebound Books. Support him at patreon.com/kaidelmas and find him at www.kaidelmas.com or on Bluesky @kaidelmas.bsky.social
