My memory is older than I am.
I am an archivist for over ten thousand lives. The last one left to speak for them.
Forgetting them is a pain I cannot bear, so I write. It is less a choice than a debt.
Each book is a single life from that archive—a map drawn from a world just like ours, with struggles you might recognize as your own.
I give them a voice to honor their silence.
And to finally quiet my own.