“I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.” - Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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Always remember; we are all writers together.

This week’s prompt is given to us by a random word generator: road