It begins with the death of my grandfather from COVID-19, a loss complicated by the lies my family told to protect one another from the pain of reality. In a conversation that deftly balances humor and emotional weight, Hiders explores how memory and imagination intersect when loss interrupts our lives. As I wrestle with generational trauma and obscured family histories, the story serves as a meditation on the ways in which we connect, protect, and misinterpret each other. The story, too, wrestles with the ethical conundrum of writing about the dead, trying to address the questions of what we owe them and how stories can expose the truth but also obscure it. Hiders is a meditation on grief that attempts to bridge memory and imagination as I find ways to connect with my family’s hidden histories — and is an exploration of the fragile power of storytelling to fill the voids left by loss. Hiders encourages readers to think about their own families and the messiness of grief and love shared between them.