Still Here: A Trip by Jonathan Satterlee
Before the gun. Before the manifesto. Before everyone suddenly cared.
This is the story of what almost happened.
When bestselling author Thomas Avery sets out to write about one of the country's most infamous school shootings, he discovers that the tragedy itself isn't the real story.
The real story begins months earlier.
With a boy eating lunch alone.
A bruised apple rolling across a cafeteria floor.
A librarian who remembers a student's name.
A poem mistaken for fiction.
A text message that simply reads:
Still here.
As Thomas pieces together forgotten interviews, surveillance footage, journals, and memories, a different picture emerges-not of a monster, but of a lonely teenager slowly disappearing in plain sight while everyone around him mistakes survival for living.
Still Here is not a story about violence.
It is a story about loneliness.
About empathy.
About the invisible moments that determine whether someone gives up or keeps going.
Heartbreaking, compassionate, and deeply human, Still Here asks the question no headline ever can:
How many chances do we miss to save each other before it's too late?
Perfect for readers of literary fiction that lingers long after the final page, Still Here is a powerful novel about seeing people before they become stories.
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