Meet River:
She is fierce, yet subtle. She’s soft, yet vibrant. She’s kind, yet sensible. She’s quiet, yet passionate. She’s elegant, yet awkward. She has all the qualities you’d want in an energetic preschool teacher—but with the sophistication of a paralegal. Minus her quirks, of course.
But her business isn’t in the courtroom or the classroom. Her business resides in a small cubicle in a big building, in an even bigger city, for one of the biggest companies in the state.
Even so, her life is as boring as it gets. And usually, when you get too comfortable, that’s right when someone throws the wrench at you… or however that saying goes.
Well—she is me. Kind of.
She is River.
But she is the me I had once dreamt of being.
Storylines, characters, relationships, and the timeline are all fictional. But her character, personality, and some life circumstances are loosely based on my interpretation of my own.
I’ll preface by saying: regardless of where this story goes, River’s life is no longer something I’d ever want. The path I’ve been on—as wild as it’s been—is one I wouldn’t go back and change for anything.
Even with the possibility of River’s happy ending… which may or may not go the way you’d expect.
So, let’s see where this story takes us.
Or—if you’re one of those people who can predict every ending—maybe just move along and try not to ruin it for the rest of us.
(I say us, because I don’t even know where this will lead.)
Does she fall in love?
Does she have her heart shattered into a million pieces?
Does she become the VP of the company?
Does she stay stuck in her cubicle forever?
Maybe it’s best not to get ahead of ourselves—this story starts way before office cubicles…
About the Book (so far):
This is a layered, dual-timeline story of River’s life as she moves through big changes, old relationships, new friendships, and never-ending mixed emotions.
Why River:
While brainstorming the idea of writing fiction, the “what-ifs” of my life kept popping up. I knew I didn’t want to write a memoir or autobiography, but I’ve always been told to “write what you know!”
And once I got the idea, River started to flow. I wanted to be respectful of my own privacy and the life I know, so I changed the plot enough to imagine what could have been, while keeping certain characteristics, events, and people as a dulled mirror of aspects of myself and my story.
