Moss and Honey

By Virginia R. Thiele

"More than half of the human body is made of water. I forget that sometimes because the majority of what we see is flesh and most of what we force ourselves to feel is in our head. Most monologues are unspoken, pretend conversations. I do that a lot, talk to myself harshly, respond harshly, pretending the exchange is with someone else so the pain I self induce is directed toward someone else, too. I wonder if more than half of my brain is made up of something I know but forget, something I willingly push away; the desire to be loved by another human being. Or maybe that's my heart. I tend to forget about her altogether. There was a time I believed I had to be perfect. There was a time I morphed into the extreme opposite. There was a time I left for college, finding fields and fields of freedom which allowed me to run toward a premature addiction I'd only just gotten a taste of, with a narrowed focus that didn't reveal any danger. My life was completely innocent before then; I was innocent before then."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DF1Z8BKW
• ISBN13: 9798336495973
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 208 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"