REFLECTIONS OF TOMORROW

Reflections of Tomorrow by James Timler

Elias Vane has lived with a secret since childhood: whenever he looks into still water—a rain puddle, a glassy lake, a dark harbor, even the swirl in a sink—he sees flashes of the future. Not clear prophecies, not helpful visions with dates or names, but fractured, cinematic moments: a bridge collapsing, a child running through smoke, a blood-stained violin floating in floodwater, a woman screaming beneath neon lights. The images feel urgent and real… yet they never reveal where or when they will happen.

Haunted by disasters he cannot fully identify, Elias wanders from city to city trying to interpret each watery omen before it becomes reality. Sometimes he succeeds in small ways—saving a single life, preventing an accident by chance—but more often his warnings sound like madness. Authorities distrust him. Strangers fear him. And each failure leaves him wondering whether his interference changes fate… or causes it.

When Elias glimpses a terrifying new vision reflected in the rolling black of the ocean—a sequence showing multiple catastrophes connected by the same mysterious symbol—he realizes the events are not random. Someone else knows about the visions. Someone may even be engineering them. Following only recurring visual clues seen in reflections—graffiti marks, a silver ring, the silhouette of a drowned clocktower—Elias forms an uneasy alliance with Mara Kessler, a skeptical investigative journalist whose sister died in one of the disasters Elias tried to stop.

As the pair race across storm-soaked cities, frozen canals, and flooded ruins, Elias becomes increasingly dependent on water to guide him… but the visions grow longer, darker, and more personal. Eventually he sees something impossible:

Himself.

Standing beside a vast, shattered reservoir.
And the world burning behind him.

Now Elias must answer the question that has stalked him his entire life:
Are the reflections showing what will happen…
or what must happen because of him?

Reflections of Tomorrow is a supernatural thriller graphic novel about fate, guilt, and the dangerous power of incomplete knowledge—where every drop of water might hold salvation… or the moment everything ends.