These days

So many feelings.

Collage for Rookie accompanying Naomi's piece 'A Mind of my Own'

My life at the moment is a hybrid of the movies I'm watching, and reality. My friends are both figments and solid beings. It takes a touch or embrace, like an alarm, to lurch me out of my fantasies - but even then my mind is a little taken with the wind. My day to day activities have soundtracks. Things can happen in slow motion. Autumn sun flickers gold through gum trees as the train plows past and then back again. Nick Drake plays as winter descends, I feel different and it's neither good nor bad. My very first boyfriend gave me a bracelet with two hearts on it, and a Mars Bar.