Contributor: Jeanelle Nicole Driver
- -
I can’t focus on the memories, shifting and swirling in an incomprehensible fog. My mind’s eye clouded by worries and doubt. I am a stranger in my own mind. I reach for still frames, snapshots, times when the world looked bright and carefree. Why is it all but lost to me now? Why can’t I break free?
This room is a cage, set up for my own protection…
“Where are you at, Alexis?” my sister said.
Her voice sounded tinny and far away, her touch but a shadow in my thoughts.
“Don’t bother me, Diana,” I said. “It doesn’t matter now.”
I heard her sigh and flop down on the bed.
“Oh, please, not this again.”
I scooted away from her warmth and opened my eyes. She would never understand, could never understand.
“You act like you’re the one suffering,” I said. “Why won’t you leave me in peace?”
She...
0 Comments
Author:
Jeanelle Nicole Driver
