A Novel Love Story

by Ashley Poston

Year after year after year, books that ferried me through heartbreak and hope and those terrible nights after Liam left. They were words that tucked me into bed at night when I was alone, they were words that played the soundtrack of my heartbreak, the what-ifs, the second-guesses, the nights I sat alone and wondered, Why not me? Those books were like arms I fell into, armor that protected me from the world when life got too hard.

“it’s okay to not know how something is going to work out. If I’ve learned one thing about being here, it’s that it’s worth taking the chance even if it’s the wrong one. You’re worth that chance. And so am I.”