Sad Dinner: What Breaks, Stays

By R. Morello

For Enzo, the morning of March 1994 begins again. He wakes in his childhood bed, his fifty year old mind inside his nineteen year-old body.

The pain of age is gone, replaced by the sharp clarity of youth. The impossible sight of the woman he never stopped loving standing just outside.

Emma is there, carrying the same weight of a life already lived.

They have been given a return to the beginning. To the golden stretch of their relationship before compromise, regret, and everything came apart.

And for a moment, they let themselves have it. The life they lost unfolds again in quiet, familiar ways.

But they remember what comes after. The lives they built. The people they became. The children who only exist because things did not work out.

This time, they understand what they didn't before.

For Emma, the future they lived is not something to undo.

So they hold on, knowing they can't keep it.

And as the past draws them forward toward the same ending, they are left with something more difficult than regret.

the chance to live it again, just long enough to choose to lose it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GV9ZBWR9
• ISBN13: 9798254081722
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"