Stories and storytelling come from the same space as lived experience and can often provide more profound insight and greater consolation than the most reliable body of factual evidence. As we often struggle to make sense and meaning of our dark and imperfect spaces, it is sometimes, those little flecks of light that show us the way forward or the way inward. Following in the tradition of all memorable short stories that have become the fabric of our lives, these stories promise to not keep us long, but because they are snapshots, they force us to strip away distractions and see only what deserves to be