Write about an object you can’t throw away.

Maybe it’s useless now. Maybe it’s chipped, faded, hidden in a drawer. But it remains. A breadcrumb from a past version of you. A witness.

Describe it in full: texture, smell, temperature, where you keep it, what it refuses to let go of. Don’t name the emotion. Let the object carry it.

Examples:

The cinema ticket folded four times in the back of a notebook.

The hospital bracelet tucked behind a mirror.

The hoodie you only wear when nobody’s looking.

Some things survive us before we’re ready to survive ourselves.

Write about one. Let it speak.

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