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The Short Story Collection That Feels Like Therapy – I Just Need Some Space Review

For the quiet hearts and the heavy feelers—this collection is a mirror, a sanctuary, and a silent nod of understanding. 💔✨ #TooMuchAndNotEnough #QuietStories #HealingInPages

Munira Sadiq’s I Just Need Some Space doesn’t just tell stories—it unfurls them, like handwritten confessions left on your pillow.

This isn’t a book you read; it’s one you breathe. Sadiq’s 33 short stories are tiny emotional grenades, each detonating with the quiet precision of someone who knows exactly how it feels to ache in silence. The characters? Oh, you’ll recognize them—the friend who laughs a little too loud to mask loneliness, the partner who leaves love letters unsent, the person who stares at their phone waiting for a text that never comes.

What guts me (in the best way): Sadiq’s ability to name the unnameable. That specific flavor of guilt when you set boundaries? The rage that curls up in your throat but never escapes? The way longing can feel like a physical weight? It’s all here, in prose so tender it borders on poetic. Standouts include a story about a woman who collects other people’s voicemails and another about a character who writes apologies they’ll never send.

This isn’t trauma porn or cheap catharsis—it’s validation. For anyone who’s ever been told they’re “too sensitive,” these stories whisper back: No, you’re just alive.

A balm for the emotionally bruised and the beautifully complicated. Keep it close when the world feels too loud. 📖💫 #QuietHealing #FeelEverything #ShortStoryMagic

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Rating: 5 loft (Flawless. I’ll gift this to every “too much” person I love.)

PSA: Keep tissues nearby. And maybe your journal—this one demands underlining. 📝💙

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