The Four Types of Conditionals If I had learned to breathe, I might not have this knot in my stomach. If I had an actual knot in my stomach, I might discover how to untie it. If I had never gotten bitten by a tick, I’d be dancing right now. If I were dancing right...
Burn Like a Phoenix I am invisible. I can walk up and down this busy strip on a Saturday night and remain unseen. People walk through me, never around me. I leave no trace, no footprint, no shadow. Being invisible comes with its pitfalls and challenges. It has its...
The noise my brothers made as they got out of bed would wake me up most mornings. There were four of us in the one room, split between two sets of bunk beds. Two of my brothers had to get up early six days out of seven and head down to the brewery for their shifts. I...
I’m visiting my parents. The coffee tastes like COVID and the soap smells like me trying my hardest. Rolling out my yoga mat on the floor, I remember all the times I’ve been here before. In this house and home, in this practice of breathing, stretching, and...
The islets look like turtles with mossy backs, sleeping breathless in the placid lake. Nothing stirs. The Arctic summer has flooded the sky and erased the landmarks between hours and days. I walk around in a daze, wide-eyed, not knowing how tired I am, like a child...
It started out in uncontained excitement. The sky was incomprehensible, vision compromised by a thick white fog that blanketed almost every inch of the environment. The trees, the grass, the red soil, the landmarks – everything, it seemed, had been sucked up by the...
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