The point was to hide your fear. Feel afraid but don’t flinch.
Flinch by Sonja Livingston
Tag: flash
We Live Here Now by Sarah Marty-Schlipf
I am kneeling between rows of kale and carrots when a thin cry pierces the quiet of my garden.
List of Interventions: Age 4-6 by Heidi Stuber
Homeopathic mini white spheres that shoot out of a small blue vial like pellets. Ashwagandha. L-Theanine. Magnesium. Methylated B-Vitamins.
Why Deny the Obvious Child by Camille U. Adams
In Trinidad, when my mother tells the story of why how she finally left her two-year-old baby, she regales, she relates, she details….
How Does the Heart Function? by Paula Kupchak Hall
The gynasium buzzes. The room is filled with rows of tables, each with a brightly decorated cardboard trifold backdrop on top
It’s Not Hospice by Jeffrey G. Moss
The cacophony is not so distracting that I miss the social worker’s pitch for end of life palliative care, the second in as many days.
Bird Bouquet by Syrah Linsley
You remember hearing how your ancestry traces back to mountain dwellers in Japan.
A Bed as a Memory, a Nap as Foreshadowing by Jamie Murnane
In my memory, the sheets are crisp and white, but that doesn’t make sense to me now.
Skin by Doug Smith
Your father died of melanoma when he was thirty-nine. Now forty, you have moles all over your body…
The Source by J B Allen
At fifty-nine, prostate cancer migrated to the brain, Ray Allen fell asleep…
