Winner of the prestigious Gimborn Drabble Writing Competition 2021

We all look for the hero within us; heroes in those around us, but in the wildest most terrifying times of our lives, we often lose our way. Trapped in a life that is born to die, we hide in the shadows of our darkest dreams, where heroes elude us. So, stumbling in our blindness, we hesitate and trembling like new born kittens, we wait impatiently for life’s light to shine upon us.

We must step beyond the distorted reflections of our timid dreams, break free from death’s sentence, struggle out into the light and rise above our fears.