I gently pulled the pins out of my twin sister's dark, rich hair to let her curls fall gently down her back. She stared absently into the mirror before her with a small smile on her lips, most likely thinking of the past 48 hours. She took a deep breath and met my eyes, "It hurt me to let those men down, but I just couldn't marry them."

The past two days had been filled with horse-drawn carriage...

The sun goes down

The trees change color

The leaves fall down

The wind blows past me

Nature makes it so blatantly obvious that the world keeps moving

regardless of whether I'm ready for it to happen

But it doesn't just move around me,

It's as if everything is running from me.

The way the seasons change as I am settling into them,

Friends move to live their lives as I integrate them into mine,

A...

I saw you once. At a local bookstore in my hometown. You looked a vision of someone carefree and alive. To anyone else that's what you were, but to me you were so much more. A collection of art of yourself that you'd given to the world. As you strolled closer to me, I felt the years of admiration and adoration flood into me with a resulting stillness that made me a statue. I held my breathe as an...