The Second Mira

**The Second Mira**

Eight months after her mother's death, Mira starts finding evidence of a life she doesn't remember living — a stranger's coffee order in her memory, a bar receipt from 2 a.m., her own handwriting describing her in the third person. The perfume she stopped wearing the week of the funeral keeps returning to her apartment anyway, and her reflection is starting to move half a second too late.

What she uncovers is worse than a haunting: grief split her in two, and the part of her that fled the unbearable moment of her mother's death has spent eight months alone learning to prefer its own version of her life to hers — and has decided it isn't giving the body back without a fight.

A slow-burn psychological horror story about grief, identity, and the terrifying possibility that the self you lose to trauma doesn't always come home quietly.