Ana Shamsi

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“Pause, Play, Live” by Ana Shamsi

Submitted to Contest #253

I pause play on life like teenage girls pause Taylor Swift songs—frequently but always with great reluctance—with heartbreak. Some might say that is a blessing, one more moment to appreciate what I have—it’s what people always beg for, isn’t it? More time? One more moment? Just one more?They would be appallingly wrong.My ability is not a gift. I can only stop time in the moments when what I love is being taken from me. It’s one more moment to suffer the grief, one more to grapple with the inevitability. There is no comfort to be gleaned...

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