WOUND

There are loves that never leave. They retreat into the silence between heartbeats, into spaces where memory lasts longer than the moment itself.

Wound is a chapbook about the inner universe we build when we love someone. It is not love that announces itself loudly but something that grows in the margins of ordinary days. A glance held a beat too long. A laugh drifting down a corridor. An earphone shared in a classroom where the world narrows to a few inches between two people.

Seven chapters trace this love from its beginning to its slow unraveling. It moves through the moment someone becomes the center of your world, the letter that was folded, rehearsed and never given, and a dream that feels more real than reality, followed by the grief of losing something that never fully existed yet still leaves a wound. Written in lyrical prose with original hand-drawn illustrations, the words and images move together. Each sketch holds meaning that reveals itself slowly to those who stay with it.

This book is for anyone who has loved completely and kept it to themselves. For anyone who has built a world around someone in their mind and carried it long after it faded. For anyone who stood at the edge of saying something and chose silence instead.

Wound does not promise resolution. It gives the ache a name.