If you're surviving, then you're living. Right?

In a dingy studio apartment, Nora might have said yes. Sure, the bills were coming faster than she could pay and she hadn't eaten a fresh vegetable in months, but she had a job and she had Strawberry. A little gray cat who made life okay.

But when that little purring support gets sick, Nora can't fathom how she'll keep pretending surviving is living.

Until a man with a voice like long-forgotten summers throws out a lifeline...

Nora catches hold with the strength survival has brought her. And something else. Something sweeter.

How fast can things change?

Find out in this poignant romantic short story!