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YWRB: Dare

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By Amy Turn Sharp I always pick dare.

Truth or Dare?

I am game. Game on.

Let's do this thing. I will get naked. I will kiss you madly.

I will run through the streets screaming.

Whatever. Why?

I think it is because it is easier than letting you inside of my mind. Inside of all the scary truths I carry like coins.

I think it's important to find your other side of the coin, the people who always pick truth.

They are not weanies. They are powerful totems.

Find them and hold them like lovers.

Teach each other how to be passionately truthful and daring.

Most of us are lacking in one side of the coin.

Truth or Dare.

Hold hands and walk into the future.

Encourage and take a chance.

It's all we've got baby.

The chance of a life well lived.

I dare you.

Amanda Page

I’m a Columbus-based writer from southern Ohio. My work has appeared in Belt Magazine, The Daily Yonder, 100 Days in Appalachia, and Lithub. I designed a downtown tour of Frank Packard architecture and then wrote an essay about it called, “The Packard Presence in Columbus, Ohio,” that was included in Midwest Architecture Journeys from Belt Publishing. I’m also the editor of The Columbus Anthology in the Belt City Series, but the Columbus addition to the collection was co-published with The Ohio State University Press. I’m the founder and executive director of Scioto Literary, a nonprofit organization that supports writers and storytellers in the tri-state region of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. I’m currently at work on a documentary called “Peerless City,” that explores the history of Portsmouth, Ohio through three distinct city slogans in use in the city over two centuries.