The box is heart-shaped, but barely, like an afterthought. It’s got a plum-colored surface decorated with tiny dots: pinpricks imitating stars. The top comes off easily and there they are—all the items she has saved from relationship after relationship. All the train tickets and club wristbands and stray buttons she’s collected over the years like […]
Amy DeBellis
AMY DeBELLIS is a writer from New York. Her writing has appeared in various publications including X-R-A-Y, Pithead Chapel, HAD, Write or Die, Ghost Parachute, and The Pinch. Her debut novel is forthcoming from CLASH Books (2025). Read more at amydebellis.com
