Cambria Covell
Bio
I'm a twenty-something geek girl obsessed with storytelling in all forms. I write for an app called Dreame as a serial fiction author and have published under the name C. McGrath for a novel called All The Right Notes.
Stories (1/0)
Not Today
Arya Starks mantra in Game of Thrones, when asked, “What do we say to the god of death?” is to reply, “Not today.” From the time I was thirteen months old, I wasn’t supposed to survive. I have a hole in my heart, a condition called tetralogy of fallot. I grew up always knowing I was different. Most other kids didn’t have to go for routine checkups once a year to get their heart monitored, or even know what a cardiologist was. By the time I was twenty-five, I had to have my valve replaced. I was lucky, and got a less invasive surgery with an experimental trial called, The Melody Valve. But during the months leading up to it, and the time surrounding it, I was at a complete loss. Weirdly, what got me through was watching other people’s messy lives. Game of Thrones being one of the things that got me through. Arya was this determined little girl with brown hair who was a bit of an outsider, much like me, constantly compared to her older, prettier sister, much like myself. My own sister spent her high school career modeling on the weekends, and I was holed up writing Harry Potter fanfiction, and watching Gilmore Girls before it was cool, while memorizing Taylor Swift lyrics with no love life of my own.
By Cambria Covell5 years ago in Geeks
