The Fall Before Flight

by L.M. Halloran

“I don’t think you’re crazy. I think you’re complicated, and passionate, and terrified of the depth at which you feel things. It’s easier for you to pretend you don’t feel anything at all. A coping mechanism.”

Do I want to die? No. Do I want to live? That’s harder to answer.

Let me ask you something else, Mia. Have you considered that not knowing who you are means you can be whoever you want to be?”

“Maybe some of us just feel things more deeply. So deeply we try to make it stop however we can.”