Once my life was brilliant with you in it

Once you were my beloved. I swam/in rivers, then oceans, then not at all

Short fiction by Abigail George

You’re the music inside my head—my love song. And when the music plays, I pull the hair back from my face and, holding it up with bobby pins, I dance for you.

A lonely and mentally ill girl finds solace in writing and tries to make sense of her world.