The Project

by Courtney Summers

Having a sister is a promise no one but the two of you can make—and no one but the two of you can break.

They weren’t raised to believe in God. As Bea grew, her lack of faith grew comfortably alongside her; it was simply a fact of herself and her world as she knew it. Belief required proof, proof of God was absent and religion struck her as a sort of magic show, the success of which was entirely dependent on an audience’s willingness to pretend a trick could be so much more than it really was.

people get so comfortable in the prisons they make for themselves, they instinctively reject what will set them free.

But where is the line between what circumstances have turned you into and who you choose to be?

She thinks that if being a sister is a promise you make, then being a mother must be a promise that you are.