Vida: Chart

Her mother’s illness. The long, dark hallway of sophomore year. Hospital visits after school. The way she’d stopped talking. A tunnel you walk through, not around. Yes.

Age 8: Kite. Age 15: Tunnel. Age 22: Coin. Age 29: Salt. Age 36: Bridge. Age 43: Echo. Age 50: Door. vida chart

So she played the game.

She pinned it above her desk. And for the first time in months, she started writing a letter to no one, just to see what would come out. Her mother’s illness