Author: imabdullahdera@gmail.com

I grew up believing the farm would always be my safe place. I just never imagined I’d have to fight to stay there the week

I believed I knew every chapter of my husband’s life until the day we buried him. Then a teenage boy I’d never seen before walked

Grief taught me how to live with the unthinkable after losing my daughter. I never expected a phone call from her school two years later

When my only son died, I thought I’d buried every chance at family. Five years later, a new boy entered my classroom with a familiar

I buried my husband a day before I buried my daughter. Three years later, he moved into the apartment next door with another woman and

I thought my quiet suburban life was built on truth, until my elderly neighbor died and left me a letter that shattered everything I believed

The Pennies in the Plastic Bag When she pressed the Ziploc bag into my hands, it made a dull, heavy sound—metal against metal. “I think

I spent two decades imagining what my husband looked like. The day I finally saw his face was the day I realized our entire life

I always believed my mother and I were all we had until her will proved otherwise. It wasn’t until I found a letter tucked away

Thirty years ago, I gave a freezing girl my grandmother’s winter coat. Yesterday, a man in a suit returned it to my doorstep. When he