Glaze

My life started to revolve around one notion: to look good every day for Instagram. I was so lost in its glamorous world that I completely forgot what my real life looked like. 

Staring into a mirror and not recognizing the creature gazing back is a hollowing phenomenon. To gradually become a stranger in the body you were born into is all too commonly seen.

Embers danced off of the vaulted ceiling, and the scholar found themself in the center of the library, on the very first floor.