A vampiress in training I’ve been since birth, sucking the lifeblood out of everything good, catastrophysing terrified my world’s going to end before I’m ready to be done…

I day-sleep or night-light troll, fretting about what comes next, knowing I have no control over any of it…

I’ve been playing hide and seek with death since the car accident that put me in a wheelchair at fourteen, and just before covid, I went from a recluse to a near agoraphobic. I stopped leaving, I stopped living.

I’d be dead if I didn’t love dancing and laughing with my kids, but that doesn’t give me the passion I crave to keep me out of bed.

I wish someone would BITE ME and SHAKE my undead ass awake, yanking me out of my passive state.