Elena Knows

What can you do if your body won’t obey? Elena

Are you your brain, which keeps sending out orders that won’t be followed? Or are you the thought itself, something that can’t be seen or touched beyond that furrowed organ guarded inside the cranium like a trove?

who was sure there would be some problem, some little thing that would mean she’d have to come back again, a piece of paper that was missing, a signature, a stamp, some miniscule requirement that when revealed to be lacking would suddenly become of utmost importance.