Kelly’s anxiety rose as they stared at the blank computer screen.
What would they say in their personal essay? How could they bare the truth of what they had lived through, coming out?
Kelly looked out the window, found their star, the one that grounded them, and started to type.
This story was written from the prompt words anxiety, computer, star. One of my cousins had to write a very personal, difficult story for their admission into a counselling masters program. I thought of them as I wrote it.