AsheVale
Ethan grieves his wife under the old oak tree where he proposed, where they laughed, and where she now rests. He writes her letters he can never send, until the day his children find one she left for him. Her voice, speaking from the past, gives him a single, life-altering command: "Love me by living." A poignant short story about loss, memory, and the roots of love that never die.