Sublime

It’s a short (~400-words), beautiful story of Henrik returning to the place he long persevered—through doubt, despair, loneliness—in doing the work which brought the circumstances of his current life into existence. It surfaced memories of my own past and, with them, a gratitude toward my previous selves I hadn’t felt before. And then the last line—it made my arm hairs stand up. It’s so good. It resists the writerly urge to overly explain or spell out the takeaway, and trusts that the reader will pick up what he’s putting down. - Billy Oppenheimer