Stillframes

Alisha, here is what I’ve done for the introduction. Please let me know what I’ll need to fix and if there’s anything I should add… It’s kinda rough, but I thought it’d be best to find out if it’s worthy or if I should restart.

Still frames await you in this book. Alisha Parker, has painstakingly and devotedly worked to present you with the writings of a girl who suffered through numerous trauma, trials and pain, yet held on to hope and humor throughout her ordeals. Not only has she given us all an honest and real portrayal of a life, she has succeeded in truly touching the hearts of many by allowing these works to be read.
These are fragile moments preserved on paper, as a moth under glass. They once flitted around in the head of a red haired girl, but she kept them safe for us in her written words. To this girl, many experiences held a paper-life she wished to share with us. Despair, small joys, her triumphs and losses, all the happened-in-a-instant or dragged-on-forever memories she held onto she left as relics of her life.
The pages following this introduction are the keys to unlocking the life of a young woman. She was at once like any other, and undoubtedly unique. You may see a piece of her out of the corner of your eye, or in your very self, but only ever a small part, for this girl haunting the words you are about to read was most often in pieces herself. That is not to say she was not strong, for her spirit withstood more than most.
She battled an eating disorder, illness, the loss of those she cared about and other pains in the years chronicled in this book. Her story is one of hope against all she was fighting, including her own self. She tells us, through time, that she was indeed there, and that she lived as she could. All told with fragments recorded just hours or minutes after events occurred, this is a true and uncompromised timeline.
Enter these still frames now and experience a life. Linger in the moments and learn of a remarkable girl who stepped out of this world and into other frames far too soon.

– Apollo Lemmon
April 28, 2003