Spillwords Press featured one of my short stories on their site today! In The Saddest Shade of Farewell, I explore the emotion of parting through the color white as an emptiness that permeates the experience of saying goodbye. This fictional story centers on a granddaughter’s final moments with her beloved grandmother, where various shades of white reflect a deeper emotional significance. Through memory, metaphor, and sensory detail, white becomes the color of loss itself—a quiet, sad, and colorless space where sadness lingers after life has gone. Here it is: https://spillwords.com/the-saddest-shade-of-farewell/

The Saddest Shade of Farewell
It grieved me that my formerly boisterous and full-of-life grandmother was nearly invisible against the sterile white of the room—as if parting itself wore this color, sucking everything it touched into stillness.
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