Christopher Stocking

“Gina was beautiful like a sunset. You see it and you think of how beautiful it is, and then it’s over and you move on. But Trista was beautiful like a song. The kind of song you play over and over and never get sick of hearing. The kind of song he wanted to write for her, but he knew he would never be able to string together the right combination of notes to show her how he really felt.”

“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.”

“Nothing makes a person desire improvement like failure”