Open Water

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

You would soon learn that love made you worry, but it also made you beautiful.

‘You can’t live in a vacuum. And when you let people in and you make yourself vulnerable, they’re able to have an effect on you.

Which is to say everything comes of something else. Which is to say from your solid ache comes a gentle joy.

The happy ending is never universal. Someone is always left behind.