The Animators

by Kayla Rae Whitaker

I wanted so badly to be more than what I felt.

“It’s the greatest thing you can do for something,” she said. “Giving it movement. Possibility.”

“Finding stuff by accident,” she said. “That’s how most people get started, I think.

How hard it is to beat the dream. How it traps you. It’s embarrassing. It’s lonely. It’s unsatisfying. It’s impossible.