2021

Say there’s a monster in your life.

The monster hunts you down, makes you small, tears you apart until you’re nothing but a trembling shadow and a dull, hollow ache. 

Say there’s a monster in your life, but the monster is unwell. Say they’re fighting demons of their own, a war of attrition, each day another defeat. Say they need help but refuse to take it. 

How do you reconcile the need to retreat and the desire to draw nearer? How do you reconcile the pity and the fear? The empathy and the bitterness? The love and the hate?

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How do you construct a coherent narrative? Exposition, climax, resolution? Protagonist versus antagonist? Someone to root for, someone to blame?

To protect the self, or to protect the other: how do you play this zero-sum game?​