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Submitted to Contest #318
| death of a grandparent | I sit outside, the sun seeped into my skin, the sky overhead such a solid blue it reminds me of miracles and false hopes. Blue, in the sense that heals. Blue, in the sense that deceives.Without bad, there would be no miracles.Nothing to hope for.Nothing to heal. There’s one cloud in the sky, and I think of you. It’s fraying, the white tuft pulled in different directions of the stratosphere, and I think of you. I look down for five seconds, just long enough to see that bugs haven’t swarmed my coffee. I look up agai...
Submitted to Contest #316
[ - mentions of hospital death - ] In nursing school, they warn you about a few things when performing life resuscitation measures.They tell you you’ll be winded. Exhausted.They tell you that you must take breaks and rotate so the patient has the highest chance of survival when your body becomes too weak to be fully efficient.They tell you the ribs will break. You hear it, too.CPR is painful.It’s a visceral sequence where primal instinct and adrenaline override logical thought, your body giving, giving, giving—trying to give life.When you h...
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