If Only I Had Told Her

by Laura Nowlin

I hope she can feel good about herself for her own reasons, not for how other people think of her.

My love for her is the closest thing I have to religion.

Should I have exposed him? Would Autumn have realized back then that his ego was more important than her wishes?

Her devotion to her writing is beautiful, like the rest of her.

Sometimes love is heavy, but tonight it is making me light and free.

“You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him.”

“Life can be and often is fiercely cruel,”