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It took about two to three weeks for Katie Cornelius to be able to get past the blurry vision and begin to see clearly. Her new owner, Kevin Cornelius, a 32-year-old clerk who worked at the DMV office had undergone a Penetrating Keratoplasty, the kind that involved replacing the entirety of the corneas. Kevin had been asked to wear … Continue reading The End? – Part 2
11/18/2023 – Saturday Katie woke up with a smile on her face that Saturday morning. It was not just her day off from work, but it was a deliberately planned day of self-care. Katie had booked a 60-minute massage appointment at Massage Envy with her regular masseuse, Tracy, at 10 am. At 11:30 am, she … Continue reading The End? – Part 1
The Flat Grey Rothy’s pair was the newest in the closet. He was a stranger in the truest sense, never broken into, and still smelt fresh, like just out of the box. He knew that she had had her eyes on him since Thanksgiving. Every now and then, she would visit the website he was … Continue reading Shooed Away!
To those women,The one who impatiently taught me how to drive with ease and sold to me, my first car.The one who helped me see the regularity in being inclined to whiskey over wine.The one who handily fixed my dresser after my movers, Two Men and a Truck, messed up its drawers.The one who supportively … Continue reading Breaking gender stereotypes
This wasn’t new to her. But every time she did it, she was as nervous as she was the first time. She mustered courage and confidence, paired with more certainty of acceptance than rejection, and walked up to Rajan. “I waited to see if you’d say something. I do not want to live under the … Continue reading Wordplay
She summoned the 14 year old me to the school staff room. I knew this wasn’t good news as I nervously stood at the staff room’s entrance. “You don’t deserve the opportunity to be in the school band. You know why? It is your smile. It is very snake-like, very sly. And what is there … Continue reading Children Listen.
He asked me to log into Yahoo Messenger. He ordered me to turn on my webcam. My heart fluttered with ecstasy. I hadn’t seen him for two days. His face was pale, as always. He picked them up one after another and showed them to me. The dark blue denim jeans. The grey and … Continue reading Five Elements – Fire
She stood by the parapet wall. Dark clouds descended and cold air ascended. Chill breeze brushed her hair away from her face. She gracefully placed the Gold Flake Kings in her mouth and tried to light up a match. The wind around her blew out the little fire. Neither had she been a customary inhaler … Continue reading Five Elements – Wind
THEN- With every beginning I wished for the end, How could eight hours seem like eternal. Across me, you sat, just shy of a brawl, I could tell we made each other’s skin crawl. New, lost, and defeated I felt, as if I were stuck in an abyss, How strangely my loneliness had meticulously creeped … Continue reading Then. Now. Beyond.
Earlier this year, my father was diagnosed with a very rare type of cancer; cancer in the duodenum. Having been a student of the sciences for the entirety of my life thus far, the first thing I did when I got this news is, look up what part of the body duodenum is. I didn’t … Continue reading Learning to live with a broken, grieving heart