Tiffany Raether
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California based Writer, Podcaster, Yoga Teacher and Graduate Student studying Community, Liberation, Indigenous and Eco-Psychologies. Follow: @tiffanyraether, Listen: Third Space Podcast with Tiffany Raether.
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Diary of an "Immortelle"
“There are only so many days I can afford to lie down,” I silently tell myself as I close my eyes and take a relieving sigh. It took me almost a month to find this barrack, and I’ve been horizontal on this creaky, metal bed for the majority of the days I’ve hid here. What a treat it’s been, to be so exhausted that I finally got some sleep. A familiar lethargy is starting to creep into my muscles from fasting. As I think about the energy it will require to reach for the rations in my bag, I return to the slow rhythm of my breath, hoping it will help alleviate the throbbing feeling in my head from the heat. I gently glide my fingertips across my chest in a slow side to side motion to soothe myself. My fingers eventually meet the curved sides of the gold, heart-shaped locket hanging from my neck. My father gifted this locket to me when I was a little girl. Every time I feel the gentle weight of it in my hands, I remember him. My eyes begin to well with tears as I anchor myself in the memory of what was. I miss my family. Everything changed so fast.
By Tiffany Raether5 years ago in Fiction
