Your Lies Don’t Protect Me

Lynda Claire
6 min readOct 15, 2022
Image by Jerzy Górecki from Pixabay

I remember the first time I lied as a child, it was an imaginative story made to make my five year old life sound more interesting than it was, but I was caught out as it happened and became fearful of lying ever since. Lying is apparently a necessary stage in childhood development and then we are shaped to make sure we don’t tell lies. The thing is there are too many adults out there who live their lives telling one lie to the next, so many…

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Lynda Claire

Seeking those moments of magic and trying to capture them with words. Exploring my depths. Living on an island at the bottom of the world.