Daily story, March 7, 2025

Already, she was too far away to hear me, so I wasted neither breath nor time on calling out. I just ran. I barely had time to notice she was moving before it was too late. I knew that if I didn’t think, didn’t even think in that bodily way that told me running so hard would kill me, that I would catch her. I knew a moment before I planted my foot that I was about to turn my ankle.