Powerfully penned, ST. Excellent storytelling along with top notch imagery my friend. Amazing write. Appreciate you.

Damian

As I appreciate you, so much! And this one was one of those written because I just HAD to find a place to put the emotion. My sister and I were lifelong best friends, but we had a falling out over money owed about a year and a half ago. I was shot in the leg, and pretty messed up, bed-ridden for all of September with a lot of time to think.

I resolved it in myself to make things right with her no matter what, but then Oct. 6th she suddenly passed away. I had such grief, regret, guilt, if only I’d have called her from the ICU even. But I had this wonderful dream (though the parts with my father were more disturbing), and this just flowed so quickly out of me, one of those ultra-rare occasions where is landed on the page as fast as I could jot it down (I suppose ones like this maybe are pre-written in our subconscious?)

I doubted myself in sharing it, that the religious/spiritual aspects might be off-putting, so almost didn’t post it, plus there are some “inside details” that make parts of it opaque, but I suppose it still works regardless. SO glad you engaged with it, and it read as story to you, it really is just a description of this vivid dream that undid any guilt and made me feel like it was all okay, my sister is still out there, and has forgiven anything of me… a real cathartic write for me, but I guess not so overly personal that others can’t still get something out of it.

Thank you, thank you, you have me writing again without it being such a wrestling with the pen.