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Still Breathing At 3: 17 A.M
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RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Davis Shyaka Musirikare
Published: Feb 2 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Valentine's Day magnifies loneliness as much as it celebrates love.
For the rest of the world, February 14th is a day of roses and romance. But for Elara Vance, a veteran emergency dispatcher, it is the peak of the Grey Shift-the hours where the calls are quiet, desperate, and hollow. For ten years, Elara has used her headset as a shield, helping strangers survive their tragedies so she doesn't have to face the one she caused.
But tonight, the silence on the line is speaking her name.
A persistent caller with no ID haunts Elara's station. When he finally speaks, the voice is a ghost she thought she had buried a decade ago. It is Julian-the artist she loved and the man she broke in a rain-slicked accident at 3:17 A.M. Now, he is standing on the ledge of the city's highest bridge, and he has spent years using a hijacked security code just to hear Elara's voice one last time.
While Elara fights to talk Julian off the ledge, a different kind of message is struggling to be heard.
Leo Rossi, a seventeen-year-old postal intern, discovers an undeliverable letter in the dead-letter bin. Written by an eighty-four-year-old widower named Arthur, the letter is a final, heartbreaking confession of love addressed to a house that was torn down years ago. Realizing that Arthur is waiting for a response that will never come, Leo defies protocol and his own fears, embarking on a midnight journey across the city to deliver the letter before it's too late.
As the clock ticks toward the dreaded 3:17 A.M. anniversary, the lives of a dispatcher, a broken artist, a teenage messenger, and a dying widower converge in a symphony of lost souls.
Still Breathing at 3:17 A.M. is a cinematic, deeply immersive novel about the weight of the things we leave unsaid. It is a story of emotional survival, the courage it takes to be held accountable, and the proof that a single conversation can bridge the gap between despair and redemption.
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