Moving is a short story I wrote in the last workshop I took in school, at the time it was challenging for me because it had to be set on earth. Everything else I had ever wrote had been set in all fake places, when I sat down to write this I was pretty lost on ideas but over time and a few edits I came out with this.
I wrote “Grown Man” after realizing I’d been in a hurry my whole life. It began with an eight-year-old thinking cereal meant adulthood, then turned into a run through the phases that shaped me—friends, fear, love, ego, loss. I revised it until it felt honest: a story about growing up too fast and still not knowing what “grown” means.