“Brittle Stars” was published in the Winter, 2020 issue of Orion. You can read (or listen to me reading it) here. This essay would not have been possible without my editor, Sumanth Prabhaker. Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2024.
Photo credit: Alvaro Esteves Migotto
“In those days, we were held by water. I came into being by an abyss. The deepest sea in the world. My parents raised me on a forty-three foot sailboat in the Southern Hemisphere. For twelve years, the world settled on us as brine and brushed our toes with kelp. Even now, when I think of touch, I think of ocean.”