Never Forgot Us: AI Edited

By Sable J Balmes

Never Forgot Us

A Poetry & Short Story Collection

Never Forgot Us is a revisiting.

This collection returns to the poems and short stories first published in Never Forget Me, reshaping them through reflection, revision, and collaborative editing. Where the original volume preserved the raw immediacy of unedited work, this edition leans into clarity, structure, and resonance-allowing the same words to breathe differently with time and distance.

Across poems and prose, Never Forgot Us explores grief, love, memory, identity, mental health, and the quiet violence of misunderstanding. These pieces are intimate without being fragile, honest without being indulgent, and intentional without erasing where they began.

This edition does not replace the original. It exists beside it.

Rather than presenting a "final" version of the work, Never Forgot Us offers a conversation between past and present-between the writer as she was and the writer as she is now. It is a study in authorship, evolution, and what happens when language is allowed to change without being disowned.

For readers drawn to reflective poetry, emotionally grounded short fiction, and collections that value process as much as product, Never Forgot Us is an invitation to witness how meaning deepens when we return to what once hurt, mattered, or lingered-and see it again, together.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKVFC269
• ISBN13: 9798246300992
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"