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A reflection on One Last Verse

There’s a question that always seems to surface in the aftermath of a difficult love story—sometimes whispered in empathy, other times asked in judgment: Why didn’t she leave? It’s a question that trails behind women like Harper, who stay longer than we think they should, who endure what others imagine they would never tolerate. It’s also the wrong question.

One Last Verse was never about a woman who didn’t know better. It’s about a woman who did—and still stayed....

At first glance, The Marriage Audit is a story about a couple on the brink—one last day, twelve structured questions, and the possibility of either repair or resolution. But beneath its calm structure is a more intimate, unsettling question: In a long-term relationship, who gets to be the main character?

For Sophia, visibility doesn’t disappear in a single moment—it’s worn down over time. In conversations gently redirected. In job offers never mentioned. In the way her grandmother’s pearl...

When Penelope asks Jack if he’d ever consider opening their marriage, it’s not a dare. And it’s not even about sex. It’s about permission.

Permission to want.

Permission to be visible again.

Permission to name a hunger before it calcifies into resentment.

One of the most misunderstood aspects of The Suggestion—and the question that often sparks the most debate—is whether the story is about desire. But the kind of desire I’m interested in isn’t transactional or erotic in a surface sense. It’s...

We talk about inheritance like it’s simple. A will. A bloodline. A name etched on a headstone.

But what about the quieter things—the silences we grow up inside, the grief no one mentions, the way certain stories never get told at all?

The Weight of Ash and Prayer began, for me, with a question: what happens to the parts of our history we never speak aloud? What do they become in the bodies of our daughters and granddaughters?

Sylvie Broussard isn’t trying to write a history book. She’s trying to...