ONE PROMISE.
The adult version of a children’s truth.
Pic: Two people and a promise.
Brave For The Other — Volume 1 (Adult Edition)
Listening time: 20 minutes · Also available as a children’s edition
Long description
Some stories are written. This one was walked.
Brave For The Other — Volume 1 is the adult companion to the children’s picture book of the same name — the unflinching version, the one told after the lights go down and the pram wheels stop turning. In twenty raw, cinematic minutes, Lance and Carolyn pull back the curtain on the year that asked everything of them — and on the three cats who quietly held the line.
There’s Ruby, the black-and-white tuxedo tom: cantankerous, impossibly resilient, the kind of cat who looks at a terminal prognosis and decides he isn’t finished yet. Moon, the soft one, who gives love away like it costs her nothing.
“Ruby illustration. One night, I recorded a portion of this audio and heard him behind me at 2:00 AM. I felt like a hypocrite reciting his praises and ignoring him, so I turned around and wondered if he could understand. Instantly, I sat him beside me. Not a herd of wild horses would have me believe that he wasn’t absorbing the melancholy prognosis from the vet.”
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And Millie, the tortoiseshell — only ever touched gently, head-first, because somebody before them got it wrong, and she has not forgotten.
This is the origin story behind LC Chaos and Home. A small Cheshire life. A blue pram. A cloud blanket. And the lanes of Warrington, Hillcliffe and Stockton Heath in sun and rain — nearly nine weeks of long walks after the vet said weeks, not months. Ruby curled into a tight ball most days, almost weightless. Then someone would say the word pram — and to their astonishment, he’d uncurl, find his feet, and go and wait beside it. Every single time.
Volume 1 doesn’t flinch from the strain. The pensive ache of wanting a break, a holiday, anything — and not being able to leave. The quiet recalibration of two people who realised they had become entirely centric to one small life, and that the only way through was outward — branching into new realms, learning AI, building something that could carry the story when they couldn’t carry it alone.
It is, at its heart, the simplest equation of all: two people and a promise. One small step. One kind thing. Brave for the other.
For listeners of memoir-led audio in the vein of Glennon Doyle, Matt Haig and Helen Macdonald — and for anyone who has ever loved something so much they had to learn a new version of themselves to keep loving it well.
The children’s edition tells it gently, with paw prints and sunshine. This one tells it true.
Press play. Meet Ruby, Moon and Millie. Be brave for the other.
Volume 1: Audio
AN AUDIOBOOK ABOUT EMPATHY & EVERYDAY
COURAGE
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