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Thirteen stories about grief that won’t lie to you. No inspirational platitudes. No silver linings. No promises that time heals all wounds or that everything happens for a reason. Just the raw, honest truth about what it’s like to lose everything and somehow keep breathing anyway.

Seasons of Grief is a collection of 27 award-winning stories by teens. These stories encompass a wide range of genres, inviting listeners to explore a wealth of important themes passionately crafted by these young writers, from a middle-aged woman suffering losses in the heart of Nazi Germany to a teen finding it hard to cope with the loss of a close friend.

In “The Pleasure of Her Company,” a lonely, single woman befriends the married couple next door, hoping to learn the secret of their happiness. In "Long Distance," a man finds himself relieved of the obligation to continue an affair that is no longer compelling to him, only to be waylaid by the guilt he feels at his easy escape. And in the incandescently wise and moving title novella, a dentist, aware that his wife has fallen in love with someone else, must comfort her when she is spurned....

Loss in any form seems to burden us with more weight than anything that can possibly be gained or learnt from. The loss of a person, a loved one, is often overwhelming. Lives so interwoven that the severing or loss of one life leaves the other weakened, unable to function for some time. Recovery comes in a myriad of forms but is usually debilitating, slow and, in the end, we are not as whole as we once were.It is a subject that authors return to again and again.

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