The Name at the End of the Page

Writer's wife

The first message took forty-three minutes to write and less than three seconds to send.

For years, Leah had admired the writer from a safe distance. She bought every novel on release day, underlined sentences that made her pause, and filled the margins with small observations nobody else would ever read.

Sometimes she disagreed with the characters. Sometimes she felt understood by them.

That evening, after finishing the writer’s latest essay, Leah opened a blank message.

She began with praise, deleted it because it sounded excessive, tried again, and deleted that version because it sounded cold. Eventually, she settled on honesty.

She explained that she loved the way the writer explored loneliness without making it seem pathetic. She mentioned their shared interest in forgotten family histories and how ordinary objects—letters, photographs and recipes—could carry entire lives inside them.

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Nimra Khan — original fiction published on RapidTale.