Half naked and desperate, the child climbed the thin bars of the door, her cage, staring at the world outside. Her ri...

It was difficult getting to people to understand that actually you wanted to be in the cage. That the cage was the sa...

The first few days she hadn't noticed the bars. She'd noticed very little about her surroundings other than that they...

The earthy smell of autumn leaves surrounded me and stimulated my senses. The crisp crunch of leaves was projected th...

Some mornings, when the sun rose just right, it was almost like nothing had happened. This was one of those mornings...

She ran off into the plants and tall grasses and let her body sway with the wind. She called it her meditation, the o...

There was a party in the upstairs of the building. On the roof. It was my building too. I had lived there for many ye...

She hadn't felt like this since she was six years old. Once, at a circus, she had begged her father for a balloon, sw...

The power of flight could be transferred. When Marisa first discovered this, she was thrilled. As far as she knew, o...

butterfly is my name, butterfly is my code name is what I mean. Small 'b'. Serial number 123456123456. One day I will...

A crappy painting of a girl in headphones standing on the crest of a mountain, surrounded by butterflies. This is wh...

She heard it calling out to her. Her clearing in Yellowstone -- it was whispering that it longed for her presence. An...