I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

Run, we think, as buildings crumble. Run, as people perish.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

A seed of hope caught a taste of moisture. Some wishful kernel buried deep, where he was loathe to acknowledge it lest it poison or choke him, began to sprout.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.