“A Flicker in the Dark” was born from a simple question: What happens to the soldier who survives when everyone else is gone? Set in a world decimated by alien invasion and held together by the fraying threads of human defiance, this story follows one such survivor—James “Hawk” Everard, a sniper hardened by grief with a spirit forged in tremendous loss.

Seven years ago, he watched his mentor fall under the blade of a nightmarish alien horror. Since then, he’s carried the weight of memory like a loaded rifle—quiet, precise, and always ready to fire. Now, buried in the crumbling guts of a ruined city, the resistance prepares for a desperate assault. But the aliens aren’t just evolving—they’re planning.

This is a story about ghosts. The ones we bury, the ones that haunt us, and the ones we become.

Beware readers, you will enter a world where every shot counts, every loss lingers, and every night might be the last. Inside the hollow bones of Earth, a war wages not just for survival—but for the soul of what remains.