"When she fell, she fell apart.
Cracked her bones on the pavement she once decorated
as a child with sidewalk chalk
When she crashed, her clothes disintegrated and blew away
with the winds that took all of her fair-weather friends

When she looked around, her skin was spattered with ink
forming the words of a thousand voices
Echoes she heard even in her sleep:
"Whatever you say, it is not right."
"Whatever you do, it is not enough."
"Your kindness is fake."
"Your pain is manipulative."

When she lay there on the ground,
She dreamed of time machines and revenge
and a love that was really something,
Not just the idea of something.

When she finally rose, she rose slowly
Avoiding old haunts and sidestepping shiny pennies
Wary of phone calls and promises,
Charmers, dandies and get-love-quick-schemes

When she stood, she stood with a desolate knowingness
Waded out into the dark, wild ocean up to her neck
Bathed in her brokenness
Said a prayer of gratitude for each chink in the armor
she never knew she needed
Standing broad-shouldered next to her
was a love that was really something,
not just the idea of something.

When she turned to go home,

She heard the echoes of new words
"May your heart remain breakable
But never by the same hand twice"
And even louder:
"without your past,
you could never have arrived-
so wondrously and brutally,
By design or some violent, exquisite happenstance
...here."

And in the death of her reputation,
She felt truly alive. "

-Taylor Swift

"Why She Disappeared" (2017)

Hi everyone. My name is Megan. Since this is, in fact, my author bio page, I suppose I should tell you all a little about me. First off, I'm a Swiftie. I'm a crazy cat lady in training. I'm southern; just making that known, as I am inclined to use southern terms in my work without even noticing. I'm nineteen years old; I've been writing on this platform since I was eleven years old. Writing and connecting with each of my readers has given me peace in even the darkest of times as I've grown up here. I'm an adult now; I'm no longer the preteen who started writing on here because her best friend at the time convinced her to. I have a busy adult life. But this will always be my safe place. So, even when I struggle to write, which is often, I'll continue to post on here, so I can give you some joy in your life in the same way you've done for me the past eight years.

With love,

Mermaid12108 (Megan)

GUYS!! Can you believe that it's really been over seven years since I joined fanfiction? I joined June 25th, 2013...wow.

I hope you enjoy reading my work as much as I enjoy writing it!! -Megan