family
Family unites us; but it's also a challenge. All about fighting to stay together, and loving every moment of it.
Harmonic Dissonance
"I'm afraid that your heart is failing." These words echoed inside Noah's head as he sat on his couch, attempting to cope with the prognosis that ultimately meant that his life was nearly over. His gaze cut right through the television show that he wasn't even watching while he alternated between sipping the beer in his left hand and puffing the cigarette in his right. He always knew that this day would come, in fact he expected that it would have come sooner than it actually did. Noah had never been one to concern himself with his health. He had always lived in the moment, and the moments he lived in were intense.
By Vince Coliam5 years ago in Humans
A Drug Addict Saved My Life
Hoisted up and turned face down, I resembled a bloated rotisserie chicken. It’s called prone positioning when a patient is placed on his or her abdomen to breathe easier. When you’re on your back, other organs compress your lungs. So, with the change in positioning and the help of a ventilator, you're given a fighting chance-- temporarily.
By Robin Jessie-Green5 years ago in Humans
Springing into Light
It was the first day of spring in New York City. Not the first day of spring as marked on the calendar. But the first day of spring where you step outside and the warmth of the sun radiates through your body. The warm soft breeze brings you that familiar but newfound energy that slipped away in the dark of the winter. There is an abundance of vibrant people out and about sitting in the park, having lunch with a friend, reading a book on the lawn. Young moms with strollers and iced lattes in hand, catching up with friends or lost in their phones. It was the first day of spring when the city felt alive again.
By Taylor Kaminski5 years ago in Humans
Aging Time
Leaving the warehouse was something he’d always expected to do. At the end, forty-five years of it, he never had. This morning, another arduous day come would just as surely go, he filed into the megastructure amidst the silence of every other worker. Their legion came from regions far and wide for the dawn shift, fleeing fast out of the dark bitter winter twilight; heavy safety boots smacked the pavement, breaths misting in the air. Soon the automatic doors swung open, ushering inside the tired silhouettes. Hacking throats that betrayed smoke-choked lungs, fingers tossing cigarette butts. Assembly herded within.
By James B. William R. Lawrence5 years ago in Humans
Fragments
Coffee spurting out of her nostrils, mouth wide open with laughter flooding the room coming from Katy who loudly proclaimed, "I even found one stuck to the outside of the expired Heinz ketchup bottle in the back of her fridge! Ketchup sandwich, ketchup sandwich, ketchup sandwich is all it said!"
By Patricia Miller5 years ago in Humans
Dream
Sky sat at her table staring at the screen on her laptop feeling numb. Another bill just one of many that she had no idea how she was going to pay this month. She had just barely made the rent at the end of last month and now a new month of bills were looming right in front of her.
By Kyan Englehaupt5 years ago in Humans
How a couple deals with the shock when they see their baby...
I am a 54-year-old Mom of one son, who is 22. His name is Robby and he has Downs Syndrome. My life is pretty typical, although while most of my friends are enjoying the “empty nest” syndrome, my husband and I will never truly know what that feels like. Robby will most likely live with us forever.
By Sue Killberry5 years ago in Humans
