Community

4 literary Companions in this category.

• Leaving Your City — When home becomes elsewhere
• Aging Out of Spaces — When you’re suddenly too old

  You walk into the bar and feel it immediately. Not hostility, exactly. More like atmospheric pressure. The music’s too loud in a way it didn’t used to be. The lighting feels aggressive. Everyone looks

• Your Group Chat Dies — When connection fades to silence

  You open the app and scroll back. The last message was two weeks ago. Before that, three weeks. You don’t remember when it shifted from constant to sporadic to mostly silent, but here you are: staring

• Becoming Invisible — When attention shifts away