Still Here

by Miranda Kennedy

Still Here from the Navigating Storms series By Miranda Kennedy. The Storm Room is locked. The circle has scattered. But the storm hasn’t passed.In the aftermath of group therapy, Emma and her peers—Jayden, Marisol, Ty, and Bri—are left to navigate healing without the safety of the space that held them. School is louder. Home is harder. Silence feels heavier. And connection, once fragile but present, begins to fray.Emma turns to her sketchbook, sharing fragments of truth online. Her art begins to speak for others—but visibility brings vulnerability, and not everyone is ready to be seen. When one member disappears and another spirals, the group must decide what it means to stay—not just in the room, but in each other’s lives.Still Here is a powerful continuation of the Navigating Storms series. It explores what healing looks like outside the circle, and how connection survives when the storm follows you home.

86 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 15, 2025

About the author

For five years, Miranda Kennedy reported from across South Asia for National Public Radio and American Public Media's Marketplace Radio. From her base in New Delhi, she covered the conflicts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and other major stories across Asia.

She wrote extensively about women, caste, and globalization in India, and her stories have appeared in publications like The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation and Slate Magazine. On returning to the US, she moved to Washington D.C. to work as an editor at National Public Radio's Morning Edition."