Sci Fi
Bittersweet
This piece was written for the following prompt: Consider the many different ways a person can be haunted: * The haunting of the unfinished conversation — the thing you never said, or the thing that was said to you that can never be unsaid. * The haunting of a person who is still alive. * The haunting of the self you abandoned * The haunting of a place. * The haunting of the body a person used to have — before the illness, the accident, the surgery. * The haunting of the life a woman didn’t choose. * The haunting of inherited trauma. * The haunting of a belief one can no longer hold. * The haunting of joy — the summer you were twenty-two, and everything was possible, the early days of a love before it got complicated. * The haunting of the thing he saw that he cannot unsee — an act of violence, a moment of cruelty.
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