Tammy Castleman

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“THE THIEF OF WINGS” by Tammy Castleman

Submitted to Contest #135

Terror. From the inside. My entire being held captive by an invisible enemy. Unseeable fingers clenching my throat, making it difficult to breathe. Heart pounding, dizzy, cold sweat, chest tight. I contemplated boarding the plane at Chicago O’Hare. The plane that would take myself and my daughter to a place I’d dreamed of since I was a small child: England. But I knew I couldn’t do it. I also knew by now, age 52, the difference between a heart attack and a panic attack, but my brain somehow did not and it kept telling me “You’re go...

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