The Letters We Keep

by Nisha Sharma

Secrets were more romantic in the shadows than in the light.

We come from such different places, but we aren’t so different after all. Your parents expect just as much from you as mine do from me. But this is where we are different: you have the choice to be someone different. I’ll never be anything but what I’m told to be.

“Sometimes the job really is about the money. Because dreams aren’t cheap.