Orchard of Unsent Goodbyes

By: Michael Dione Starling

Narrated by: Micheal Carter

In a quiet orchard by the sea, a woman tends to the trees her family left behind — each one named after a person she never had the courage to forgive.

Every pruning cut, every season of fruit and frost, becomes a conversation with absence: the letters she never sent, the voices that once filled the branches.

As she works, fragments of memory return — a lost brother, a forgotten promise, a mother’s unfinished song. The orchard becomes her confession, her prayer, and her reckoning.

Lyrical and deeply introspective, Orchard of Unsent Goodbyes is a meditation on how we grow around loss — not away from it.

It asks what remains when words are never spoken, and whether tending what’s living can redeem what’s gone.

©2025 Michael Dione Starling (P)2025 Michael Dione Starling