Sarah Ann Jennings

Sarah Jennings is a writer and yoga teacher from North Carolina. She writes poetry, short stories, and novels inspired by her studies in linguistics, eastern philosophy, as well as the world around her. She has been published by Cadence and Fish Food Magazine, and won the D. A. Brown award for creative writing at Wake Forest University.

Birth of a Cosmic Being: Chapter One

It was dusk when I awoke in this body for the first time. I was on a screened porch watching the light fade from the clouds with an old friend I hadn’t seen in a while. We sat on wooden chairs carved by his grandfather and looked out over the back of his land. It was shadowed fields of greenery at this point, and a few dark spots that could have been cows or bushes depending on whether they moved or not. Over the canopy of trees farther back, a smoky gray blue of fading light traced the tops of the leaves, and I could easily picture the crescent moon rising behind us.