Finding Hope After Suicide

Fictional short story

Athena Milios
The Lark Publication
7 min readJul 28, 2023

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Photo by Anna Roberts on Unsplash

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…

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Athena Milios
The Lark Publication

Greek-Canadian, clinical pharmacist with a master's in psychiatry. I love writing stories and poems around mental health to exercise my creative bone!