Your possessions, your house. Your job. Your partner. The places you see every day, and the ones you can only reach in memories.

Your friends, everyone you’ve loved. Every pulsing caress, every glance across classroom aisles. Your siblings, your mother and father.

All that is what I want to be.

Christina Nordlander writes constantly, primarily things on the SF/fantasy/horror spectrum. She has lost her job, but still has her PhD in Classics and Ancient History.