🔥 Unspoken stories & silent notes
Chapter 9 of Firewords Issue 17
This week’s stories explore the quiet weight of what we carry — the regrets that linger and the questions left unanswered. Both pieces examine love in its absence: the ache of what could have been, and the fragile hope that understanding, even when incomplete, might be enough to bridge the distance.
The Cost of Two Beers, a story by Liz Koe
Ten years ago,…