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How to Love Your Mother
A daughter reckons with childhood abuse, a mother's belated apology, and what it takes to rebuild trust across thirty years of silence.
Writing
My thoughts, works, and stories
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Coda: Sehnsucht
Letters between two souls holding each other alive—a devastating, luminous memoir of love, grief, and the threads that survive even death's severing.
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Postlude: Koi no Yokan
The companion piece to "Glass Bottle"—told from the island's shore, a tender story of two broken souls who find each other across an impossible sea.
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Memory and Shadow
A Memory Keeper and a creature of Oblivion fall in love across cosmic law—an epic, breathtaking story of forbidden love, sacrifice, and what endures.
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Stardust in Your Veins
Dying young seer Ahsa races to prepare his gifted sister Aruna to carry on—a luminous, tender story of prophecy, sacrifice, and sibling devotion.
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Her Name is Beloved
A mother's ghost watches over the daughter stolen from her—a luminous, heartbreaking story of abandonment, belonging, and learning to be beloved.
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Remember
Heath carries the memories of a love Luna chose to forget—a gorgeous, aching story of betrayal, loss, and what it means to remember for two people.
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Walls
Imprisoned by magic that erases him from memory, Agosto clings to a love slowly forgetting him—a haunting story of loss, loyalty, and being unmade.
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A Whisper in the Ear of the Eternal
An immortal embodiment of Winter falls in love with a mortal shepherd—a lyrical, devastating tale of love across the divide of time and mortality.
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A Song of Rain
A grieving musician counts the days since losing his artist lover—a tender, heartbreaking story of love, mental illness, regret, and learning to dance
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Beneath the Hawthorn Tree
Elowen loves a blacksmith's boy whose heart belongs to revolution—a lyrical, aching tale of love, silence, complicity, and what survives destruction.
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Trails of Broken Dreams
In a town where broken dreams light the sky each solstice, a cynical teacher meets a scarred girl whose stubborn hope begins to crack her open.
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Born, Bound, Blind
A mischievous spirit befriends a young prince, but as duty reshapes the boy into a king, their bond quietly fades—a ghostly tale of lost innocence
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A Tale of Two Brothers
Born of land and sea, brothers Silas and Caspian must choose their own paths—a lyrical tale of brotherhood, belonging, and bittersweet parting
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Until the Sun Sets Again
Two young men find love amid rejection, but must choose between devotion and growth—a quiet, aching story of first love, loss, and becoming
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Prelude: Glass Bottle
A ship captain and an island fairy exchange letters in glass bottles across stormy seas—a tender story of connection, hope, and enduring love.
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About this Collection
Each story is followed by an author’s note providing context about its creation. These notes are part of the
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Preface
My Kochan, My Beloved, My 知己, My everything, My soul,
We always said there are no words adequate enough to