he just wanted to escape time

fifth place short story -- pokémon watty awards 2015 *** When Ronnie, a seventeen-year-old girl with a history of mental disorders that she's worked hard to bury for years, watches her partner Pokémon die, all of those problems return to the surface, and she is admitted into St. Lauren's Hospital until she can recover. As a form of therapy, she is told to write what she feels. Her road to healing is documented once a day until she leaves, and says goodbye to the friends that got her through it. *** (Neither Pokémon, nor the pictures in the cover, belong to me. Only the plot and characters.)

What if the only thing you have left is just a piece of paper? Well, more of a whole stack of papers, a thousand to be exact. Origami is the only thing for the one who folds again and again, one paper bird at a time. It's the only hope this person has who has fallen into the depression of knowing nothing will ever change, alone with no one to catch them. But it's not until a magical paper world opens up to this person, filled with life and color compared to the dark and gloomy life. The only question is: Will these paper cranes give this person hope once more or will they abandon this person in the darkness?