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Tag: Abrupt Endings

  • The Cake

    The Cake

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    Harper Leigh
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    The cake had been going well. They had laughed while mixing it, flour dusting the bench, music playing low. It felt easy. Comfortable. The kind of moment that suggests there might be more of these ahead. Then, as Mara slid the cake across the bench, it tipped. The cake cracked and sagged to one side.…

  • The Emotional Impact of Abrupt Endings: A Personal Reflection.

    The Emotional Impact of Abrupt Endings: A Personal Reflection.

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    Harper Leigh
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    I want to write about something quietly painful.Not to accuse.Not to analyse.Not to blame. Just to name what it felt like. Twice within a few months, the same connection ended abruptly. There was no space to stay with what was happening, no shared pause, no holding of the moment as it unravelled. What stayed with…