Watch Me Disappear

by Janelle Brown

You don’t realize how much you’ll miss the asphyxiating intimacy of early parenthood until you can finally breathe again.

Take two people with a mutual willingness to connect, convince them to expose their innermost thoughts, and presto: true love.

The Greek oracles, or psychomanteums, were able to travel to distant places by looking deep into mirrors and entering a hypnagogic state, Olive reads. The same technique can be used to visit the spirits of your loved ones virtually anytime you want. The ancient art of mirror-gazing is a proven method for bridging the natural and psychic realms, available to anyone who has the patience and discipline to train his or her mind.

All memoirs are lies, even those that tell the truth. They can’t help it, because the longer we live the more our fixed pasts keep changing.