Don’t Let Me Fade Away

On the day his company goes public, Arthur has his wife Vivian committed to a private asylum, blaming her for the death of Selene, the first love he has worshiped for fourteen years. He never learns that Vivian once braved a blizzard to beg for the money that saved Selene's life, or that she locked him away only to keep their family from starving.

A visitor called Dawn steps out of that snowy night and into Vivian's life, pressing a thick envelope of cash into her shaking hands with a single condition: divorce him. Vivian has seven days to decide. The money buys Selene's surgery, but it also reveals what Arthur feels for Selene, a bond Vivian insists is only that of half-siblings, and what he has never once felt for her.

When the seventh day comes, Vivian leaves behind her few belongings and the gold band on the kitchen counter. In a cramped, drafty attic she takes up her pen again, while Dawn watches the man who destroyed her mother and wonders what he is capable of loving.