“The Vaccination” (from New York Minute Magazine)

It was time for my vaccination. I stood in a long line, hushed by the unique elixir of mid-week exhaustion and fluorescent school house lights for my annual flu-shot. I nervously stretched my shirtsleeve up as far as it would go anticipating the needle. Something about the line, the inoculation and my mood reminded me […]

Finding Freedom in a CRASH

Stephen King begins a story with a main character who felt that life was smiling at her. She was mistaken, he writes, Life was actually baring its teeth, ready to bite her. That is the nature of life. It hits us hard at the times we least expect it. There is always a deep and […]