<p>Carrie tried smoking grass at 14. It&#39;s not what you think. It didn&#39;t go well.</p><p><br></p><p>Today, we’re doing something a little different: Carrie is sharing a finished thing—a non-fiction short story she wrote called “The Inside Girl.” It’s about growing up in a bubble, longing to be inside of culture, and the day teenage curiosity met cattail fluff and…fire. It’s a story she needed to write to make sense of her longing to belong.</p><p>_____________________________________________________________</p><p><strong>Where to find Carrie</strong>:</p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@carriekingpresents/p-175493686" target="_blank">Read “The Inside Girl” on Substack</a></p><p>Substack: <a href="https://carriekingpresents.substack.com">carriekingpresents.substack.com</a></p><p>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/carriekingpresents" target="_blank">@carriekingpresents</a></p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@carriekingpresents" target="_blank">@carriekingpresents</a></p>