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Falling Awake
Fluorescent, flashing lights go out, and I am descended into a darkness, so desperate that it draws its arms around me and holds on. I hold my nerve, hollow, held breaths as I count the beats of my heart, each one taking longer than the last to arrive because I am travelling, trailed by the…
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Healing Tree
Snow has sunk into the ground, beaten and defeated by the soft rays of the sun. I stare, seated in my kitchen, at the pleasant pink and blue that peeks from behind the branches of a healing tree, a tree that has weathered the winter, spurred on by the promise of return and renewal. The…