The Summer of '89: Things We Never Said

By Lucas Dridik

Eight years is a long time to pretend someone doesn't exist.

Harrison Lennox has become good at it. He built a new life in Ohio - modest, steady, solitary - and buried Denver under the weight of everything that happened there. He never said goodbye properly. He never got the chance. Some wounds don't close; they just become part of the architecture of who you are.

Then, on an ordinary afternoon in 1998, a taxi door opens and Scott Miller is sitting inside.

Older. Quieter. Carrying the same eyes that once made Harrison feel, for the first time in his life, like he was worth something.

What follows is not a reunion - not exactly. It is two people circling the wreckage of a love they were never allowed to finish, navigating the distance between who they were and who they've become. Harrison has his grief, his solitude, a string of relationships that all ended the same way. Scott has Amanda, a life that looks right from the outside, and a silence about everything that matters most.

Things We Never Said is a story about the words we swallow for years - and what happens when we finally run out of reasons to stay quiet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H1SWCK81
• ISBN13: 9798233289354
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Lucas Dridik
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"