The Road Home
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With every step, Evelyn moves through the eras of her life-some joyful, some painful, all strangely distant.
Faces she should know she can't remember. Places feel both familiar and forgotten. And no matter how far she walks, "home" seems just out of reach.
A quiet short story about memory, time, and a woman searching for herself as the world she once knew fades around her.
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