The Fall Before Flight

by L.M. Halloran

“I didn’t want to die. Still don’t. I just wanted to be free.”

Escaping reality is my ultimate high—chasing that elusive feeling until I achieve my goal. Freedom from memory. From pain. Do I want to die? No. Do I want to live? That’s harder to answer.

Regret lives in the past and fear in the future, but neither exist in the present. Let’s live in the moment, one day at a time.”