Grin Against Gravity
A Mountain boy, One Smile, and the Start of a Bigger Story
It’s picture day, and I’m perched on a plastic stool, knees scuffed, hair doing whatever it pleases. The backdrop is some cloudy blue illusion, but I’m all real wavy hair, a grin wide enough to challenge gravity.
I’d just finished telling the photographer about a raccoon I saw in the woods, how I named it Skippy and planned to make it my sidekick.
Inside, I was already scribbling secret stories in notebooks when no one’s watching.
The flash caught more than my face, it caught the sparkle of a boy dreaming bigger than his mountain holler ever guessed he would.
About the Creator
Tim Carmichael
Let your becoming be louder than your fear, and your smallest steps become the road you once thought impossible to walk. An Appalachian poet and cookbook author my book Beautiful and Brutal Things is on Amazon, Link 👇
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