Katie Yee

“You're never too old to be afraid of what you can't see.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

“Even when he’s packing up his things or taking the kids someplace, even in the middle of this shit storm, there are little moments when I see the Sam I knew. When he says something funny or makes this pensive facial expression I have quietly adored or hums a song we used to dance to. He peeks through the spaces in between the dense forest that has grown between us, shoots through like dappled sunlight. In moments like these, it’s like nothing has happened. No Maggie. No kids even. The way that certain angles of sun and warmth can hit you exactly like they did in your youth; sun that has been untouched by time. Just like he said: he was the sky, and I was the soil, and the weather was his attempt to meet me. This is when the heartbreak hits me hardest. When he reminds me of the people we used to be, when we had so much in front of us. This is when I most want to let him in on things. He transforms back into someone I want to tell my life to. And then something shifts in the atmosphere, and the moment—that person—is gone.”
― Katie Yee, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar