Tree Lines - Chapters One through Four

Chapter 1

Preludes

One by one, the fairies living in wildflowers and the voices of trees that once I could see and hear, faded away.

Chapter 2

Shifts

The doctor smiled as he announced to my mother, “You have a beautiful baby girl but she has no legs.”

Chapter 3

Home Alone

Sometimes after I got them to bed, I would sit, fetal, on the sagging couch, drinking jug wine and crying. 

Chapter 4

Friends

Although I was grateful, I didn’t understand what attracted them to me.