seconds

By Khailla Shanne

"The thing about grief is that it stays.
It comes with a roar and it doesn't bargain-it won't grant another day or spare even a second for a cleaner goodbye. It enters the room and it drags the righteous while they scream and thrash. Sometimes, you come willingly. You walk side by side and it whispers "don't look back" as it carries your worth in its hands. Your power in yours. Then it sends you home. It reminds you to keep the door closed even if it hurts. Even if hope comes knocking and love sends flowers. Even if he changes. Because grief knows what's temporary. Grief understands. Grief tells you to stay gone.

So I stay gone."

From the author of HOURS and driving lessons, Khailla Shanne returns with a new collection of poetry that centers the truth about healing: it never comes in a straight line. It spirals, in between grieving, remembering, relapsing, and growing.

Perfect for anyone who needs a soft place to land, 'seconds' explores what it means to learn how to choose peace even when chaos feels more familiar. To move forward by looking back. To outgrow a version of yourself, and still hold space to miss them.

this book explores the complexity of: time - through emotional relapses, seconds reveals how time bends and repeats when you're healinggrief - these pieces mourn people and versions of yourself who haven't died, but are gone nonethelessidentity - an exploration of who we become after heartbreak, and how we grow from itletting go - a reckoning with how staying gone can be harder than leaving in the first place

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FGYGS3W9
• ISBN13: 9798289727435
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"