Off the Deep End

by Lucinda Berry

Everyone else called it the train accident, but something isn’t an accident when you do it on purpose.

Maybe being treated like an animal turns you into one.

“You’re not equipped to go from nothing bad ever happening to you to the worst thing that could possibly occur happening to you. It’s like being hurled into the deep end of a pool when you don’t know how to swim. That’s what it feels like. And all of it is dark. As if every light in the universe has been turned off.”