What Waits Beneath Us All

A Story Grown from Grief

By: Stephanie Tyo

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In a forgotten farmhouse surrounded by an orchard that blooms out of season, memory is more than something you carry—it’s something that carries you.

When Lena Hearst discovers a single rusted nail on her living room floor, it marks the beginning of a slow unraveling. The house isn’t falling apart. It’s unbuilding itself. Room by room, root by root, memory by memory. As the past resurfaces through glyphs etched in bark and dreams that speak in soil, Lena must confront a legacy planted long before her time—a buried presence that remembers everything, and asks to be remembered in return.

Aided by a mysterious girl, a grieving archivist, and a book that bleeds ink and grief, Lena finds herself at the center of a ritual that has shaped generations of her family—and may yet shape the land itself. But when remembering becomes a choice, and forgetting becomes a weapon, Lena must decide whether to seal the past… or let it bloom.