Story Fifty Minutes in a Café Near the Station, and It Was Not a Reconciliation
Part five of five. Both of them said the thing they had come to say. Both things were true. Neither of them fixed anything.
Friendship Betrayals
Original fiction. Friendship breakups get far less attention than romantic ones and hurt just as much.
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Story The Group Did Not Survive It, But Not in the Way People Expect
Part four of five. There was no argument. Nobody was removed. It went administrative, then quiet, and then it was simply over.
Story What Nobody in the Group Knew About Dawn’s Mother
Part three of five. She had been driving ninety minutes each way, twice a week, since October, and had told none of them.
Story The Worst Thing I Have Ever Written, and I Have Written a Eulogy
Part two of five. The apology did two things at once, and the second one made it very much worse.
Story It Was Meant for Her Sister. It Went to the Group.
Part one of five. Eleven minutes passed before anybody responded. Hilary has described them as the longest eleven minutes of her adult life.