Those people are not real to me, the masses with whom I am forced to share this particular slice of space and time, most are just shadows drifting on the peripheries of my life, incapable of altering or shaping it, pale ghosts who cease to exist the moment they leave my sight.
Lauren Phillips-Freeman is a language teacher and writer with a love of words in all their forms. She uses writing to help her process her own tangled emotions.