Writings for Winter

I am so very, very sorry for the loss of your husband! I am overwhelmingly glad and relieved that my poem helped you navigate his death. Sending you all the love and joy from my side of the universe - I hope life will be so beautiful from you!

n.r.

It's so disorienting and confusing and maddening, isn't it? Just like you wrote in your other message after this one. <3

Thank you so much to The Gravity of the Thing for publishing my short story "Delegate" in their Spring 2026 issue!

This message made me so immensely relieved, glad, and joyful all in one - first, I am so incredibly glad you are still here, and I hope you continue to be here. I truly, truly do.

I wish it weren't my posts about my own trauma that resonated with you, but I am glad that from those posts, you were able to find a thread of hope and stay through the night and into the morning.

I am so proud of you. I am so proud of you for staying and for writing again. There is the biggest smile on my face knowing you wrote a poem, because I know how much that means.

I hope you write many, many more poems to come. From where I am to wherever you are, I am sending you all the love and light I can muster. <3

I hope you're doing well

n.r.

I'm so sorry to hear this, n.r.! My love and best wishes to you and your family!

Is there anything I can do?

New poem.

some nice light bedtime reading at 10pm!!! i didn't even realize i still had these emails and that they've just been sitting there for 12 years

i think sometimes i just want to like, remind myself that i didn't make the entire thing up and that im not a terrible person like he said i was, and that i'm somebody worth loving and that im a valuable person