Milk and Honey and Lithium

"I'm not trying to die. I'm just... tired of pretending I'm fine."

After her aunt's death, Elise moves into the crumbling coastal house she left behind-a place where the furniture is mismatched, the windows sweat rust, and silence lingers like mold in the walls. She makes tea she doesn't drink. She fills prescriptions she doesn't take. She keeps breathing, because no one's asked her to stop.

Everyone thinks she's okay. She's very good at being okay.

But grief has teeth, and Elise is starting to feel the bite.

Milk and Honey and Lithium is a quiet, devastating portrait of a young woman unraveling in the aftermath of loss. Told in poetic prose with flickers of dark humor, this is a story about grief, identity, the performance of healing-and what happens when pretending becomes too heavy to carry.

For fans of books that leave you a little bruised.

Hi, I'm Emerald403 - this is a quiet little novel I wrote for anyone who's ever whispered "I'm fine" through gritted teeth.
It's about loss, tea, cats, and the long, slow ache of being left behind.

If you're looking for something soft, sharp, and a little sad... welcome.
Stay as long as you'd like.