Creative Writing

MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WORLD

A fictional short story about a young woman navigating motherhood, time, and money.

Maybe lives are like ribbons:

they converge and then

cross, and keep crossing.

Like two heartbeats on one

monitor. Like strands of DNA twisting

over and over. And oh, their

dance! It’s like watching the stars

collide, or throwing Pop Rocks on

weathered sidewalks.

But then, it’s the trails left by a

meandering ship. It’s the crackle

at the fall of a firework.

It’s the wondering and the waiting:

Will we ever meet again?

And then,

more quietly:

Will we ever be the same?

A short film centered on Anna, a woman who learns to see the world in a new light when she spends the day with Julie, her 3-year-old granddaughter.