Status Updates From The Girl on the Ice

Her description of fear is also remarkable, the uneasy feeling the reader gets ‘don’t go out there kayaking smth bad is going to happen’. And maybe smth bad will happen - it’s a thriller at last. But this is exactly what fear feels like: uncertainty but still doing it.

“Like other things her dad had taught her - how to tie a bowline, navigate with a compass, start a fire with flint- she felt them in the foundations of her being”.
At this point I’d like to shoutout my Mom and Dad for teaching me such valuable things all my childhood that helped me grow so independent, especially as a woman.

Ofc it’s a bad fucking idea to leave the boat 2 hours before it sets sail. It’s like white ppl in horror movies: there’s a noise- let’s go check it out 😭😭