A Final Letter You Won't Read
Student Type
Graduate
College Affiliation
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
Writing
Submission Type
Oral Presentation
Abstract
"A Final Letter You Won't Read" is a short, experimental, creative nonfiction piece of epistolary memoir focusing on the suicide of a friend at fifteen and the author's never-ending, ever-evolving process of moving forward in the years since, taking him along with her in some ways and, in others, leaving him behind. Choosing between the two is never easy.
This piece is one half of a conversation with no possibility of an answer wherein the author works through the complexities of her long-term grief and shame, left behind in the wake of a decade’s-long absence. Being honest in a way she was unable to reach with her friend in life, the author writes one last letter that he will never read.
Recommended Citation
Lane, Victoria, "A Final Letter You Won't Read" (2023). 2023 Student Academic Showcase. 5.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/src_2023/Oral_Presentations/Session1/5
A Final Letter You Won't Read
"A Final Letter You Won't Read" is a short, experimental, creative nonfiction piece of epistolary memoir focusing on the suicide of a friend at fifteen and the author's never-ending, ever-evolving process of moving forward in the years since, taking him along with her in some ways and, in others, leaving him behind. Choosing between the two is never easy.
This piece is one half of a conversation with no possibility of an answer wherein the author works through the complexities of her long-term grief and shame, left behind in the wake of a decade’s-long absence. Being honest in a way she was unable to reach with her friend in life, the author writes one last letter that he will never read.