When Never Comes

by Barbara Davis

Your grief isn’t anyone’s business but yours.

How could reading be work when you got to meet people and go places you’d never be able to go in real life?

that the face a person chose to show the world wasn’t always the real one.

“I don’t believe in never, and neither should you.” A tiny V appeared between Christy-Lynn’s brows. “How can you not believe in never? It’s just a word.” “No,” Missy said firmly. “It isn’t. It’s all the doors we keep shut. It’s the places we won’t let ourselves go, the things we won’t let ourselves have

“All I’m saying is don’t live a smaller life than you deserve.”