Inevitable
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Inevitable

I fell apart and piece myself back together in a fern-carpeted, moss-draped, tree-shaded forest threaded by a stream.

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Bad Ways to Exit a Canyon
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Bad Ways to Exit a Canyon

This body, the one I’ve hated and mistrusted and treated more poorly than anything else I’ve ever owned – it still worked, and it worked well.

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Windblown Wallflower
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Windblown Wallflower

Funny that something invisible can hold the power to take down - well, really - anything.

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Weather Makers
Beth Downing Beth Downing

Weather Makers

In that moment, I floated like the balloon and like the clouds caught on the atmospheric interruption. In that suspension, I was within my own cloud.

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