Better Days Ahead: A dream too big to break

Lea, at rock bottom{maybe at her parents grave in the ruins of stolen dreams}. The world had abandoned her or maybe it never cared at all. She stood in the quiet of her small apartment, the weight of grief pressing down on her chest like a stone. Her parents were gone and with them any sense of safety she had ever known. Her siblings slept fitfully in the next room, in aware of the despair creeping through the corners of their lives.
She had dreamed once. Big dreams. Dreams that kept her awake at night, hoping that someday her words would leap off the page and touch the heart of millions. She had imagined her name in the light but learned that dreams were fragile and the world had a cruel way of breaking them.