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A City Girl’s Post-Breakup Recovery Manual – by Vuyokazi Ngemntu

She’ll wrap her arms around you when her inquiry into your well-being causes your spine to collapse. Sensing your discomfort, she will sit beside you quietly, covered in your musty duvet. A movie will watch the two of you until Uber Eats arrives. You will take a few pizza bites for her sake and find that it struggles to push past the permanent lump in your throat. Too numb to protest, you’ll get into the bath she runs you and sit there sobbing while she changes your linen.

CALL FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS: WRITING LOSS & GRIEF

Grief and loss are as universal as life and death. They are footnotes punctuating our moments of joy and happiness and love.

From Antigone to Things Fall Apart, from Beloved to An Equal Music, some of the world’s most searing stories have been written from nibs dipped in the ink of loss and grief.

And now, it’s your turn.

Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”