More Than Words: A Love Story

by Mia Sheridan

I want to do work that challenges me and uses my strengths to make a difference.”

“Jeanne d’Arc was a martyr and a saint, a military leader acting under divine guidance who led the French army to defeat the English during the Hundred Years’ War.”

All battles are first won or lost, in the mind. —Joan of Arc

was laying off alcohol on this trip. Or at least, I was cutting down. Before five anyway. Or at least noon. I checked my watch. Ten forty-five. Damn.

enjoy a little people-watching.

So yes, I was a twenty-four-year-old virgin who’d never shared my entire body or my entire heart.

We had one chance, one life, and then it was gone. Live fiercely and without regret.

“I needed help!” I wrestled with a whole section of cabinet, finally tearing it from the wall and hurling that as well. “You never helped me! You never helped me! Why? Why?”