Look In the Mirror

by Catherine Steadman

No one owes all of themselves to anyone else. We are all individuals, and what we give of ourselves, we must choose to give freely.

But parents hide a lot of the world from their children, especially if they love them.

Silence sets the imagination on fire. And my imagination is primed with fears, death high up there, death front and center of everything right now. And when you are alone there’s a lot to be afraid of: intruders, accidents, or perhaps, worst of all, the slow unspooling of your own lonely mind.