The coffee shop woman, usually so full of radiant light, had heavy eyes and when I asked why she told me first about how things had grown so dire back home, with no fuel or food, and she couldn’t reach her family. In place of fear she then smiled and asked me what she could… Continue reading Aren’t We
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New Orbit
I am imagining what it would be like to have a badly-behaved celebrity-style meltdown, smashing chairs and windows, my blood stream coursing with destructive chemicals. Only not the artificially introduced kind. Rather, the kind that my own disordered brain produces. I imagine how satisfying it might momentarily feel to give into the feelings of rage,… Continue reading New Orbit
To the Light
When I was 16-turning-17 I flew from Miami to London on July 4 for a summer study program. All along the east coast, before banking out over and through the dark of the North Atlantic, save for the stars, fireworks went off below. At 30,000 and then some feet up, all you heard was the… Continue reading To the Light
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