Anxiety
this test, online, and it’s supposed to tell me when I’ll die. It says: July 25, 2055. Instantly, I wish I’d never taken the test….
Claustrophobia is failure of projection: my face collapses into its grave. They rolled me into the MRI, panic-bulb in hand, an IV of valium in…
You hate the feeling of blue cotton. It’s the feeling of a day that goes too long. The flat blue sky is too bright. You…
[Oprah, do you remember when you rescued the child from his life of raising sheep? when you snatched his overalls and ceased his convulsions on…
The first slumber party in Angie Bushnell’s unfinished basement I’m light as a feather, afraid I am too fat but stiff as a board, light…
A person can easily forget how big seagulls really are. –Mary Ruefle The same is true for all the living. Once, on a jungle hike,…