Two Breaths Too Late by Rochelle Maya Callen
Two Breaths Too Late by Rochelle Maya Callen 9.30.14 Young Adult After years of secrets and bruises, Ellie Walker takes her own life only weeks before her high school graduation. She expected to be free, but instead is forced to face the brokenness she has left behind. This story isn't about happily-ever-afters. It is about the millions of terrible and beautiful moments that make up a life and the hope that lives in even the darkest of places. A Message from the Author: EXCERPT: Death, I let you take me. I handed you a rope, a chair, and a hollow shell of a girl forgetting that I didn't have to be hollow at all. I press my forehead against the glass. The feeling rakes through me. There is no relief or freedom here, in this in-between, in this limbo. This is not the sanctuary I wanted. Hope can't be a hollow wish or dream. It needs to be filled, levied, brimming over with intention and action and b...