My first Sylvia is a little girl who shared a room with me when I was sent to the hospital for a week. I was nineteen and she was nine, and she had very long and thick and soft golden hair. She was friendly, and when her family visited, they were friendly too. When my family visited, they were serious, and I was surprised to see how quietly worried my sister was about me.
Sylvia was easy to talk to, and we talked a lot. She liked it when I read to her, and she told me I had a pretty voice …
Bio:
Tanya Tomasch is a Canadian writer, musician, and translator who grew up in Austria and Czechia and now lives in Vancouver.