The Summer Without You Official

English 101: Creative Nonfiction Date: April 14, 2026

On the last day of summer, I ate one of your tomatoes. It was mealy and too ripe. But I salted it anyway. I ate it standing at the kitchen counter, looking out the window at the empty porch swing, and I did not feel better. I did not feel healed. the summer without you

This paper is an attempt to map that geography of absence. It is not a eulogy, for you hated formal things. It is a record of the summer I learned that a person can be gone and still take up all the oxygen in a room. English 101: Creative Nonfiction Date: April 14, 2026