This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) 🎧 Listen while you read: “Start Again” by Nick MulveyFor the brave beauty of saying yes before you’re ready—and becoming someone new in the process https://open.spotify.com/track/2ksgMG1hHFHV979phZ2lkd?si=0324841f1bb84257 Mira's Story: The Year of YesWhere… Continue reading Chapter Sixty-One: The Year of Yes
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's StoryWhere the unexpected feels like belonging Mira didn’t expect to see him. She was wearing leggings, an oversized sweatshirt, and yesterday’s mascara. The grocery store wasn’t even her usual one, just… Continue reading Chapter Fourteen: A Beautiful Interruption
This is Mira’s story—part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: The Ache of AlmostFor the almosts that hollow and hold. Proof that you're still willing to hope. The trip wasn’t meant to be anything profound. Just a birthday getaway for… Continue reading Chapter Three: The Ache of Almost
This is Mira’s story—part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira’s story: The One You Don't See ComingSometimes people arrive quietly, without a grand entrance—just a feeling of calm. She wasn’t looking. Not really. There was no spell cast, no prayer whispered.… Continue reading Chapter Two: The One You Don’t See Coming
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: The Whisper Before the SilenceThe soft unraveling before everything changes, when you feel it before you know it. Cole came in quiet. Not the kind of quiet that… Continue reading Chapter One: The Whisper Before the Silence
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: The Kind of Wrong that Almost WorkedWhen longing wears the mask of love—and you finally walk yourself home. Some stories don't end in heartbreak. They end in a… Continue reading Chapter Zero: The Kind of Wrong that Almost Worked
Sometimes we meet someone and feel a flicker of something we can't name.Not love, not friendship—yet—but recognition. A resonance that stirs the air between us. A pull that says, “Pay attention.” These early moments, where we feel a connection but don’t yet understand the why, are potent.They hold the power to awaken us. Not because… Continue reading When the Soul Remembers Before the Mind Understands
From myth to legend, from history to folklore, the stories of these so-called "bad girls" share a common theme: powerful women are dangerous, and dangerous women must be controlled. Whether they were witches, seductresses, warriors, or rulers, their legacies were shaped not by their actions alone, but by the fears of the societies that remembered… Continue reading 012 Conclusion: Reclaiming The Narrative
A woman weeping by the river. A mother searching for her lost children. A ghost whose cries send shivers down the spines of those who hear them. La Llorona is one of the most chilling legends in Latin American folklore. It is a story told to keep children from wandering too far. Beneath the ghost… Continue reading 011 La Llorona: The Mother who Became a Haunting
Cleopatra was one of the most brilliant rulers in history. But you wouldn’t know it from the way history tells her story. When you hear the name Cleopatra, what comes to mind? The seductress who ensnared Julius Caesar and Mark Antony? The queen who bathed in milk and rolled herself in carpets? A woman whose… Continue reading 010 Cleopatra: The Queen Who Was More Than a Lover
