Visibility Becomes Me
Hope #21: Hope releases some of the guilt that had kept her lurking in the shadows
Recap: Escaping her former life, our narrator has settled into a large city, where she’s healing in a constructive space. She’s found peace, confidants, herself, and as a consequence the strength to put guilt aside and plan ahead.
Hope releases some of the guilt that had kept her lurking in the shadows
Luke calmly provided the sustenance I needed to recognise that even though I had failed my children by leaving, the choice to stay had not been mine.
My husband systematically cut away at my sense of value until I was invisible. That’s why nobody noticed me leave.
Thankfully, my survival instinct took hold before it was extinguished.
I couldn’t return to that life, but I wanted a chance for the twins to share the one I was thriving in.
Time for action.
“Hi mum. Sorry for the silence. I need your help.”
Taking a deep breath, I slowly exhaled.
To be continued…
Author Reflection
The previous inspiring episode from Debdutta was my favourite so far and really propelled this one forward.
From my own experience, it is difficult to try and return to the chaos of a previous life to salvage those things that matter to you. But when actual innocent lives can be affected by your actions, then the course chosen needs to bear them in mind.
I hope you the reader are rooting for Hope as much as her creators are. She really got under our skin and I know we’ve both learned a lot from her. A reason I can not understand when some say fiction is frivolous. In my eyes its educational and entertaining.
Debdutta Pal will continue next Thursday.
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Fiction allows us to step into another world so we can understand ours better.
People who don't get that are living half-lives.
Realistic fiction, like yours, has taught me more than anything else ever could.
Hope in action mode is heroin with an e.
(and here I am randomly quoting Taylor Swift 😁)