Adult Fiction

This piece examines how grief can emerge in the absence of a fully realized relationship, tracing the ways in which attachment may be directed not toward another person, but toward an internal structure of meaning projected onto them.

It reinterpretes the Kübler-Ross model, exploring a recursive form of mourning—grief for something that never fully came into being, yet was experienced as real.

In the absence of a relationship, the internal conflict does not resolve but recurs, preventing grief from progressing and binding it instead to repetition.