"It still troubles me whether it's a story I have the right to tell."

When Helen Rye created a piece of flash fiction adapted from a painstakingly researched monologue in a community theatre piece she’d written she didn’t suspect it would catapult her into the literary world. Now she considers that story, its success and the people that inspired the tragic title. A humble, thought provoking piece that explores how our achievements are sometimes hard to accept.