Together
Calia G.
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I've written a lot of pieces in the past year, so it was difficult to decide which one to submit. I choose this story because it encapsulated a feeling that I've carried with me for a while: the feeling of being haunted. A lot changed in my life over quarantine, losing loved ones and friends when my family moved away from the city to escape covid because of my father's respiratory illness. I felt like my life at home had suddenly been taken from me, and that I left so much unfinished. Often, I felt like that old life was haunting me. My family lived in Sonoma, where I took long walks in the hills, gardened, and wrote. I felt lonely, but couldn't escape the memory of the life I had before and the thoughts of what could have been. While this story reflects the feeling of being haunted onto a very different situation, it was therapeutic for me to write it, especially from the perspective of the person doing the haunting.
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Creativity is my life. Writing has always been where my curiosity and creativity synergized. When I got to high school, I wrote every night, a hobby I will never abandon. Now, I’m working on a series that I hope to get published–but I would write even if a career were unviable.
