Now That You Mention It

by Kristan Higgins

respect—I caught a couple of them looking at me, recognition dawning, puzzlement coloring their faces. Nora? Really? That fat little nobody who stole Luke Fletcher’s scholarship? The one who put Sully in the hospital? Thanks to my psych rotation, I knew all about projection and self-fulfilling prophecies. Ever since the day I left Scupper at eighteen, I’d tried to be someone else. It was harder back here, where memories never died.

𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 😭😭