After Rapunzel donated her braid to Locks of Love, her head felt too light, like it might float away.

They called her selfless, saintly. They praised her for her sacrifice.

She couldn’t tell anyone the real truth—that she needed to learn who she was, without her hair defining her.

C.M.F. Wright writes sentences that occasionally turn into stories. Her short stories have appeared in Syntax & Salt Magazine and in the VSS365 Anthology.