Your face lights up
…into a grin as I walk into the room. You have an infectious smile. I have been so afraid to see you today, that I have left you for last. “I’m glad it’s you! You’re always optimistic and bringing good…
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In a timeless darkness
…in the middle of nowhere. Amidst 20 bunk beds and twice as many sleeping bodies. Look at you now, covered habitually from head to toe in your blanket. Covered come heat or cold. Unconscious protection. One more form of protection.…
It is done
“Raise your hands up”, I say. She obeys while moving her fingers several times against her thumbs in loose fists. “Does it hurt?” “No, only my neck hurts…and I can’t move my fingers”, she says. “What happened?”, she asks. I…
She tore her knee
Fade out. There is a screaming. This sound has taken over our whole world. It is shooting out of every pore of a young female, bouncing off the walls and reverberating across the quadrangle, throughout our hostel and probably into…