The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

by Erin Litteken

“Just make it through today, and hope tomorrow will be better.”

point is, people can move on from loss. You can still have a life, even when you think there’s nothing left, because there is always something to live for.

You are my life, and I can’t imagine living without you.” Katya took a shuddering breath. But now, I am living without you.

decided it was time I stopped disliking them for the bad memories and choose to enjoy them for the good memories.

Life had set her down a path she’d never imagined traveling, and now she was stuck with one foot in each world—the before and after.

“You must understand, no one spoke of those things. Stalin denied the famine, and the world believed him because they needed his force to beat the Nazis. Speaking