Arden James

I write from the edges, the places where perception sharpens and the world grows quiet enough to hear itself. This intensity isn’t something I learned; it’s how my mind works. I notice patterns, textures, shifts in tone. The way light touches stone. The breath between words. The way silence can tell the truth faster than speech. We live in a time that measures and sorts everything. But what connects us, what makes us human, isn’t data or order. It’s perception. It’s the way we feel and interpret the world through our own wiring. For some of us, that wiring is divergent: faster, more layered, sometimes overwhelming. But it’s also where empathy lives. I…