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  5. Issue 5 – 55-Word Stories

Issue 5 – 55-Word Stories

55 Words

Via Zoom

Living a pandemic.
Loss. Jobs, people, freedoms.

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Loss of Function

They “function” only to see, yet…

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Humble and Proud

I cannot transplant your heart.
I cannot cure your cancer.
I cannot stop death.
But,

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Disclosures of Life

I haven’t seen death. Formaldehyde nostalgia. Different specimens.
Organisms are human.

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Cold Hands

Just go in and out of the patient’s room
Don’t let anyone know you are nervous.

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Home

The home I left is a fresh tattoo: a throb at night, of longing.

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