By the Long Island Sound

Water holds memories. It holds truth.

It's always changing, and that's what makes it a constant. That's life. That's my idea of love.

I'm a water sign—a Cancer, born June 30th—and I've always felt like its best representation: emotionally charged, but learning to harness it and channel it through creative outlets.

This story is not told from my first-person perspective. It's told by the water—by the Long Island Sound—a narrator that witnessed everything, remembers it clearly, and doesn't bend the details.

In this way, the reason I'm writing is preserved and my spark is fixed in time. I hope that when you look out at the water, you'll remember it too.