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Insomnia by Melanie Masters
I can’t sleep because of a word beginning with e or i. Enigmatic? Iridescent? No.
“You’re _____,” he said, reducing me to a single word and I, sleepless and dulled by wine, forget. Irresistible? I wish. Impossible.
Are They Real? by Virginia Silverman
“Are they real, Mommy?”
My daughter was staring at my bare breasts one morning last month as I got dressed for work. The incisions from my double mastectomy were quiet now, having faded to a mildly aggravated pink over the past six years since my surgeries.
Without Words by Philip C. Barragan, II
The sound of our footsteps echoed through the hall. Dozens of faces too ill to smile stared at us as we tried not to look into their rooms. Hushed conversations mingled with the odors of Lysol, bleach and fresh flowers. We arrived at our destination.