...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.

Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.