Jadegirl

    Lara, a 16 year-old girl, is coming home from school one day.  

When you have a dream, you should hold on tight and never let it go. Pursue it to the very end. Sometimes, that dream turns into an obsession. It eats away at your core. It consumes you.

     The lump in my throat grows slowly as I hang onto a borrowed, too-large gray sweater for dear life. Small portions of golden potatoes and thinly-cut pieces of steak au poivre steam gently on the dinner table.

The floorboard creaks as I tiptoe to my seat, eager to watch the first time children meet.