Rebecca Blanchard

A black leather notebook and a pen placed on a wooden surface. The notebook's cover has decorative patterns. Overlay text in bright yellow and white reads: "The day you died, I took the black leather book from your house and put it on a shelf in my bedroom to keep it safe from harm. From "Little Black Book" by Rebecca Victoria Blanchard. First-place winner in the Nonfiction Essay or Article category of the 94th Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition."