“Unlocking the Secrets Beneath: Dive into the Haunting Depths of Stephanie Clare Smith’s ‘Everywhere the Undrowned'”
“An empath is a person with an extrasensory antenna.”
Smith tells us, “There are three ways that people become empaths. Some are just born as extra-sensitive beings. Some have parents who nurture this trait. For the rest, this extra is born of a trauma. The way your sense of smell changes when you smell your own trauma.”
“Dear eleven-year-old Linda. I feel you,” Smith writes of a child who, years earlier, was kidnapped, raped and murdered.
In between these tiny paragraphs, among the threads of this complex patchwork of facts and feelings, I found a strong connection. My fourteen-year-old self found kinship with Stephanie Clare’s fourteen-year-old self. I saw her in the droves of young people who once congregated in that Baltimore park, panhandling for their next meal, selling nickel bags of pot and tiny pills of unknown composition guaranteed to make you forget your problems, if just for a while. Kids trying to keep warm while appearing cool.
Post Comment