Dark and Shallow Lies

by Ginny Myers Sain

In the tarot, eleven is the card of Strength and Justice. It represents the

courage to stand strong in the storm and face your own worst fears.

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.”

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

It hits me that maybe Elora was lucky. She disappeared all at once. But Hart’s been disappearing a little bit at a time. Every time I see him, there’s more of him missing.