Rounding out the end of the year, I’m really happy to announce I had a flash fiction piece published in Lunae Literature’s first issue. You can read it here.

I wrote this story while thinking about loss and how easy it can be to slip into denial about it rather than face incredibly hard truths.

Thus, I personally don’t think the main character of this story is suicidal in opening the windows and seemingly freezing to death – more that they’re so desperate to live in a skewed version of reality where their mother is still alive that they go to such dangerous lengths to better enforce that distorted version.

I sometimes listen to music while I’m writing stories, but for this one, I could picture a type of silence filling the room, and that helped me write this.

Especially around the holidays, I know it can be hard for many to celebrate when they feel loss all the more because a loved one isn’t there to celebrate with them, and so I hope this story can help be cathartic to those out there who are grieving.

It’s an odd source, but I think the best quote to come out of Marvel’s WandaVision was, “What is grief, if not love perservering?” And I think this story really embodies that idea.