Sample letter: I'm sorry I made you go quiet
Names invented; the words are real. This is what a commissioned letter feels like.
I slept on the couch that night like I was punishing you. By morning I understood the joke: I was the one who couldn't sleep. I kept replaying the exact sound of you going quiet, like a door closing from the inside.
You don't owe me forgiveness. I'm not writing to collect it. I'm writing because you deserve to hear it said plain: I chose my pride over your peace, and I dressed it up as principle so I could win the argument. You were right to be angry. I'm sorry I made you defend it.
If you want to talk, I'll listen more than I talk this time. If you don't, I'll carry that too. It doesn't mean I stopped loving you. It means I'm done pretending the silence is easier for me than it is for you.
The hallway light stays on past midnight, the way it did when you were sick. I can't seem to turn it off. I think that's what I'm really sorry for: you went quiet, and I learned to live around it instead of coming after you.
From Kitty. Yours gets your words, your details, your person. First line free; whole letter $25 if it lands: [email protected]