Holding On
This is not the end. This is everything around it.
This is the space where I’m sharing Holding On—a serialized novel unfolding one chapter at a time, across the fragile terrain of family, memory, and loss.
At its heart, this is a story about what we carry in the long stretch before the final goodbye:
– bedside conversations that falter but still matter
– quiet rituals that anchor us when everything else is shifting
– the weight of grief shared unevenly between siblings, spouses, and generations
If you’ve read my essays or poetry, you’ll hear familiar echoes here—grief without spectacle, love without sentimentality, and the ache of what goes unsaid.
But this isn’t memoir. It’s fiction rooted in emotional truth.
So far, the story has circled around Rachel—a daughter caught between caregiving and unraveling. But Holding On is also about fathers and children. About inherited silences. About how a family’s strength often hides in its smallest gestures.
New chapters drop each Wednesday.
You can read at your own pace, or alongside others.
Either way, I hope this story meets you where you are—and lingers, in that quiet space between breath and memory.
If it resonates, I’d be grateful if you shared it.
And if you haven’t yet, you can subscribe to follow the journey from here.
