‘When I was little, I used to lay outside and reach my hands up to the sky above , convinced I could touch the great moving clouds if I just extended my arms a little further…’

“I truly believed they would answer me if I could only reach them.”

“I still does,” Lizi mutters to herself with a small smile.

Even now, as an adult, some things haven’t changed. Every night after a long day, she finds ...

She heard this phrases before, she reads about it. And she’s trying, really trying.

It wasn’t an easy decision, not for Lizi Lee.

She’d always clung tightly to control, especially over the things she knew she could do well. Her hands were used to crafting details, her mind used to measuring everything twice, sometimes three times, just to make sure it was right.

She was taught to be perfect, a...

**“The Message You Never Sent”**

It started with a message he never received.

Lizi Lee was sitting in the back of a taxi, rain beating down against the windows, phone clutched in her hand like a lifeline. Her thumb hovered over the screen.

‘I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it that way. Can we talk? Please don’t leave.’

She hit send.

A green bubble.

Not delivered.

No signal.

Her chest tightened, pa...