Finding Hope After Suicide
Fictional short story
Published in
7 min readJul 28, 2023
It was a crisp Sunday morning in late October. I was lying in bed with my Pitbull Zoe cuddled up next to me, still groggy from the previous evening’s sleeping pills. I could hear birds chirping and the wind whistling through the trees from my open window. Lounging comfortably under the calming pressure of my weighted blanket, my mind decided to temporarily abandon the confines of…