Bound by Voices
“That’s what you call therapy, isn’t it? Great. I’m the planet’s therapist.”
> “You’ve had worse jobs.”
> “Name one.”
> “Possessed matchmaker.”
> “Okay, fair.”
They smiled for one fragile heartbeat before another tremor shook the ground.
The lake below the hill churned, rising higher than the banks. The world’s sobs weren’t done.
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By nightfall, storms circled the horizon like restless thoughts.
Mira stood at the window, watching the lightning trace patterns across the sky—shapes like veins, like hearts trying to mend themselves.