The role you survived as → the person underneath it you can return to

Chapter Eight of Reimagining Rebellion. The three shapes a frightened person bends into, and the tenderness the record was hiding the whole time.

Chapter Seven set the walls down. And once the voice stopped being yours, a question came loose that you’ve spent your whole life not asking. Not who built this — you’ve grieved that. The new question is about you. Who was I being, all those years, and what did I become to get through?

Tonight is the only chapter that doesn’t put on a song. It puts on th…