Just because it’s not hard science, just because it doesn’t lead to a high-paying job at a hedge fund after college, doesn’t mean it’s not worth pursuing.

When you made plans, the saboteurs came out to play.

For many, the emotional trauma of a broken heart can manifest as real, physical pain.

Stop and think as you pass by, she hissed. As you are now, so once was I.

One girl lost forever to this stagnant place was enough.

Just because it's not hard science, just because it doesn't lead to a high-paying job at a hedge fund after college, doesn't mean it's not worth pursuing.

I have learned that knowing where you're going means remembering where you've been.

She had been derailed, delayed, detained forever at the side of the road in a town surrounded by nothingness.

That girl, dead and gone, her spirit trapped forever just inside town limits—she'd come from someplace, was going somewhere. Until destiny had stepped into the road in front of her, stopped her forward motion, drawn a killing claw against the white, fluttering swell of her future. Whispering, 'Oh no, you don't.'When you made plans, the saboteurs came out to play.

She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.