Dark and Shallow Lies

by Ginny Myers Sain

“Everyone has some kind of psychic gift. It’s just that some people are able to unwrap their gifts more easily than others. It’s like singing. Everyone is born with the ability to sing, but not everyone joins the church choir.”

She told me everyone has at least one secret that’ll break your heart.”

“Knowing is hard,” he says, “but it’s a thing you can survive. The not knowing will kill you in the end. It’s the secrets that fester.”

“You don’t go on living just the same,” he tells me. “You have to go on living in a completely different way.”

It hits me hard how every single one of us—everyone in the whole wide world—is walking around with missing pieces.

“Lots of people fall in love with monsters,” he tells me. “Only they don’t realize it until it’s too late.”