Negative Space (SFWP Literary Awards)
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Writing my grief into these pages to make it tangible, so it would exist somewhere outside of me and I wouldn’t have to drag its weight with me always.
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The two versions of him existed together in my mind, butting up against each other, contradicting each other, but neither erased the other. I could see more, could see deeper into the story, but the parts I remembered and cherished remained unchanged. Like the frame of the image expanded to show more around the edges, but what had always been at the center stayed the same.
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the version of me that I became without him could never have known him. They can only exist together here on these pages, and in my mind.