A quiet beginning
Issue №1 — December 2025
Hello, and welcome.
I wasn’t sure if I’d write this. Not because I didn’t want to, but because writing directly to someone feels so different from writing a story. There’s no character to hide behind here. Just me. And you. And this shared breath between us.
But the more stories I published in One Long Breath… Held, the more I felt that maybe this deserved a quiet space of its own. A place where I could gather what’s left behind, the half-lines, the scraps, the breath that follows a story but never quite lands inside it.
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That’s what this newsletter will be.
Not marketing. Not announcements. Just a soft note in your inbox, once a week, maybe, sharing something still, something true. A story that lingered. A line that refused to be written. A thought I didn’t want to leave behind.
I think we live so much of our lives between the obvious things. Between the yes and the no. Between the “hello” and the “goodbye.” And in those in-between moments, something real waits, quietly, to be felt. That’s what I’m chasing here. The ache between heartbeats. The breath you hold just before someone speaks.
Thank you for letting me write to you like this.
It means more than I can say.
I’ll be back soon, with something small, and (hopefully) something that stays.
Until then…
Fin
