When You Were Everything

by Ashley Woodfolk

There’s a line in The Tempest about the past being prologue to everything that comes after,

She is a force to be reckoned with, made of beauty and power and smarts. And that’s why I feel like a near-constant disappointment to her. I came from a storm of a woman, but I’m just a drizzle of a girl.

carried around snow globes because I was in love with every place I’d never been.