I Read Stories: Wild Violets by Marisa Celeste Montany

 

Wild Violets by Marisa Celeste Montany in Crow And Cross Keys

One day her skeleton decides to leave her. It’s been coming for a while, she’s been busy with outside things.

At first she gets by, surprisingly able to stand. She feels what the bones are doing, finding wild violets, letting the wind blow through them. But life without a skeleton is hard.

Read This: About missing someone vital, about pain and disability, about having uplifting experiences
Don’t Read This: You want the metaphors to be clear