This Impossible Brightness

by Jessica Bryant Klagmann

Breaking away from one life for another did not leave a clean edge—not on either side.

Things simply were what they were, and she observed them, as passively as a rock observes the wave that laps over it.

“It is agonizing, the disposition of the human mind to construct obstacles in one’s own path, when the world itself has given us none. Life is so much easier than you think, Hayden MacKenna.”