In "As Our Sun Begins to Fade," Steven Storrie weaves a quiet, aching elegy for lost youth and unspoken love. When a young soldier returns to the brown, empty fields where his childhood home once stood, he is confronted by absence--the vanished house, the lonely commemorative stone, and the echo of his own hesitation. Through crisp November winds and memories of daring daydreams beneath an ancient sculpture, he reckons with the choices he never made and the words he never spoke. This tender, forward-looking tale honors the places and people that shape us, reminding us that courage lives in every moment we dare to seize--and in every chance we take to tell someone the truth.