Stranded

by Sarah Goodwin

‘Forgive, but don’t forget,’ I said, one of Auntie Ruth’s other aphorisms. ‘I always try to remember that. Because if someone can hurt you once, they can do it again.’

Absolutely

Snow shrinks the world down. When I’d lived with my parents in their little village, it had kept us inside for days at a time. The roads outside slick as glass and unsalted,

True

I’d heard someone say once that ‘suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem’.

Sometimes people feel there is no other way

Fortunately I have learned that there is no justice, aside from what we make for ourselves. There is only survival, and the victor tells the story.

Victor tells history