Mayra
She auditioned for my attention, the grace of my stare, the touch of my hand. Now I’m auditioning for my soul.
Leap year, they called it. Sick of school, grades, being polite, living someone else’s dream—that’s what I called it. Solbakken Folkehøgskole, perched on a hill in Skarnes, wasn’t about report cards or finals. It was for dreamers, for theatre. You lived in each other’s pockets, mornings in script work or movement class, afternoons with sawdust and hairspray from building sets or stitching costumes. Dinner was at four-thir...