Annie Bot

by Sierra Greer

But he doesn’t own what’s inside you. Nobody owns that but you.”

Fulfillment starts with being truly honest with yourself. Not anyone else. Yourself. And that’s harder than you might think.”

Maybe, she thinks, she’s grown to appreciate having an existence separate from his, her own thoughts that don’t always revolve around him. Now that he’s pulling her more tightly into orbit, she feels her own resistance, feeble but real.

You want to know danger? she thinks. Try living with a man who creates you just so he can eat your soul.

She is not human. She is Annie, a Stella, her own star. No more and no less.