A woman looking through rain-streaked glass toward a city glowing with amber lights

A short story by Braxton J. Bennett

NIOBE

If you could erase your grief, what would it cost you?

Some wounds aren’t meant to be erased.

A couple turned away from each other, reflected in a rainy window

Love. Grief. The cost of forgetting.

Love and pain
are inseparable.

Mara and Brennan are drowning in a grief that consumes every corner of their lives and marriage.

Desperate for relief, they turn to the EvenMind Clinic.

But some wounds aren’t meant to be erased.

Before you read

Would you choose to forget?

Imagine you could erase a memory that hurts. Would you let it go, or keep it because it is part of who you are?

Choose a path. Consider what it might cost.

NIOBE

Some stories stay with you.

A marriage. A desperate choice. A question that doesn’t end on the last page.

Read the complete short story on braxtonbennettbooks.com.