The Poppy Fields

by Nikki Erlick

Because they have each been told, over and over, that the only way out of a hardship is through. But nobody ever told them that they had to stay awake.

She’d lost the person she thought she was and the person she’d planned to become.

The thing about grief is that it’s never just grief.

grief was also guilt. It was living with the question: How much was my fault? It was wondering what you could have done differently.