The Ocean Just Gets Me, Chapter 6 The house settles into nighttime stillness around me. Each creak of the floorboards, each tick of the ancient heating system marks time passing as I position my microphone for the third time this week. The signal loops softly from my speakers, a gentle underscore to my movements, like […]
The Ocean Just Gets Me, Chapter 5 The soft pulse of the signal thrums over the speakers, creeping through my head, sinking its hooks into my thoughts. I close my door, holding the bag Sam bought me, and slide out the smooth plastic box. The microphone is real. It’s here. The possibilities coil tightly around […]
The Ocean Just Gets Me, Chapter 3 I count the days by the number of times Mom asks me to come eat. Sometimes I do—when Dad is out for a football game, when even I can’t ignore my hunger—but mostly I don’t eat. I hear them arguing through the walls again. “She’s always not hungry,” […]
The Ocean Just Gets Me, Chapter 2 Time slips through my fingers like water. I spend it in my room like I always do: forums, the game, forums, the game, sleep, repeat. Every moment is like the last… Until one night when Mom asks me to come eat with her and Dad in the dining […]
The Ocean Just Gets Me, Chapter 1 The walls in this house are paper thin. Their voices seep through the plaster like rain dripping from a cracked roof. I lie in bed and let the words soak into me, cold and familiar. “She can’t keep living like this,” Dad says. His voice is low, even, […]
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