Hello Jason,

This really is a very sad write and you have created a situation and place vividly in the reader's mind with your descriptions of the empty hallway and the unoccupied benches and then relating that back to the emptiness you feel.
I found the end particularly good. The way you build the hope by writing "A space you filled when you came" and then dash it just as suddenly with "a space you've left behind when you walked away"

Well done and all the best,
Ben

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