First Snow
13 min readFeb 29, 2020
It was almost October when Ruby decided to learn how to do the things that scared her.
She’d told a counselor at Haven House that she dreamed of someday going to Mexico, but that she was afraid. The woman had tilted her head and peered over her glasses.
“Life’s a series of terrifying things,” she’d replied with a cold shrug. “What are you going to do about it?”