_Beeep…. Beeeep …Beee—_

The phone picked up erupting with uproarious laughter and inaudible chatter, making Alex almost jump. He felt a twinge of envy and a mix of gloominess as he closed the door behind him.

"'**_Sup Alex?_**" Avery perked up.

“My life…” he tossed his phone on the bed.

“**_What?_**”

“Nothing... ” he plopped down, the mattress gently sinking.

"**_Hold on a sec. I'll head ...

I know how this feels.

Everyday getting worse.

Knowing something’s wrong.

But being told you are just fine.

Done....

She knew they weren’t telling the truth. She was too tired. Too slow. Too weak. It made her angry, being lied to. It made her feel small and helpless. She gritted her teeth as she lay in bed. They had made every effort to make her comfortable. When it has first come on, her and her husband had moved to her brothers property where he had access to the best healers. Her children visited often, bring...

A cozy fire in the hearth crackled. Peach, pink, and tangerine, ribbons of light draped across Jared’s king sized comforter from his huge bow window. Vanilla sweetness of his award-winning night-blooming cerbeus plants scented his bedroom suite. Jared snorted himself awake. Face up he was starfished in a tangle of silkCracking open one eye, Jared groaned at the brightness. He could barely see for ...

I wake up, again with blurry vision, again with a foul taste in my mouth. Again I try to step from the side of my hospital bed in room 144 and collapse to the ground with knobby knees. Again I have to press the button for the nurses to come in and put me back in bed. Last week, I could walk; this week, I can’t even feel my legs. Soon, I won’t be able to feel my arms, either; I can sense that it’ll...

Yeah, a score I never signed up for. Doctors love the word _fine_. It’s clipped, dismissive, and vaguely authoritative—like a slammed gavel closing out a difficult case—_fine. _Full stop. Even as I’m sitting here, in a hospital by the way, sweat prickling at the back of my neck, feeling like something scraped from the bottom of a shoe. That’s where I’m at: David Marshall, age forty-five, being tol...

They insisted I was fine because there was no correlation between the problems in my health.

One month it was pneumonia, and then my ACL torn while walking up my apartment stairs.

Somehow I became blind a random day.

I don’t understand while they think this is normal. And even if they did, they refuse to treat me. Maybe they think this is funny, which it is not. Or maybe they aren’t telling me the...

Luanne dragged herself up to the door and pushed the button. The big doors of the clinic swooshed open, and she cautiously made her way in. The receptionist (what was her name?) waved and Luanne plopped heavily into the nearest chair to catch her breath.

“Mrs. Dawson, please check in. You’ll need your ID and insurance card. Sorry. New system”.

The woman smiled at her and her name popped into L...

You know, skies are not only tales, they’ve got eyes too. When you think you’ve got a moment for yourself, one moment for your soul to speak to the pain, you are wrong. They watch you, they listen and they collect this energy that goes up and down.

If you would only care to look away, to the beauty

in your way and search for life up above…

You never thought it like this before, but fields, they’v...

On the first visit they were suitably reassured.

On the second they were uncertain.

On the third they were sceptical.

On the fourth they were frustrated.

On the sixth they were maddened.

On the seventh they were distraught.

On the eighth they were in tears.

On the ninth they were pleading.

There wasn’t a tenth visit....