Hello Everyone,
How are you all?
Thank you for taking the time to read this story. I wanted to share a few thoughts about how and why I wrote it…
When I began this story, I wanted to see what it would be like to write with nothing but a single person at its core — without leaning on other characters or detailed surroundings. At first, I worried that this simplicity might weaken the story, that without the usual layers it would lose its depth. But as I kept writing, I realized that the absence itself carried a kind of power. In that stillness, the story found its own weight — quiet, focused, and unshaken by distractions.
This is a story about an ordinary couple— not a hero/heroine, not someone extraordinary, but just a couple living through their own quiet moments. There are no grand twists, no larger-than-life events, only the small and simple weight of her life as it was.
Yes, I know this is a tragic story. I don't usually enjoy very tragic endings myself, but I felt it was important to let the story remain what it is, even if that meant carrying a heaviness in the final moments. That said, I chose to add an epilogue — "not to take away the tragedy, but to let it ease slowly, softening into a quieter memory rather than ending in a sudden, sharp silence."
You may also notice I never gave the male protagonist a name. That wasn't for secrecy, nor as a deliberate twist. It was simply because I wanted the feeling of him to come through more than any word or label. Sometimes a name fixes a person in place, but here I wanted the readers to experience him as a presence, memory, and feeling.