Look around. Listen. The times are already holding up the same signs they hold up every Covid wave.
Look around. Listen. The times are already holding up the same signs they hold up every Covid wave.
Not tired the way people get after a long day of work, but emptied.
Eyes half open, limbs still moving. Yet, nobody is home inside.
It felt as if something had already come through and taken the part that makes a person present.
Not tired the way people get after a long day of work, but emptied.
Eyes half open, limbs still moving. Yet, nobody is home inside.
It felt as if something had already come through and taken the part that makes a person present.
Faith looked around the empty room and asked, “Where is everyone today?”
I said Kelly had been out sick, missed last week too.
Faith looked around the empty room and asked, “Where is everyone today?”
I said Kelly had been out sick, missed last week too.
For years since Covid, my sinuses and ears have held congestion that will not ever clear. This sinus invasion feels like it moved past tissue and made a home in my soul. It will never leave me.
For years since Covid, my sinuses and ears have held congestion that will not ever clear. This sinus invasion feels like it moved past tissue and made a home in my soul. It will never leave me.
A 30 year old drops in the grocery aisle and they call it "normal." Others see the slow collapse they will never connect.
A 30 year old drops in the grocery aisle and they call it "normal." Others see the slow collapse they will never connect.
I was fighting for my life from repeat Covid infections brought home from my toddler while we had to work to survive.
I was fighting for my life from repeat Covid infections brought home from my toddler while we had to work to survive.
My boss in the back row coughing like she was trying to exorcise herself. Someone asks if we still hosting the Fall fest for a Saturday in October.
She says, "Well I been out all week with the 'flu' so I will find out."
My boss in the back row coughing like she was trying to exorcise herself. Someone asks if we still hosting the Fall fest for a Saturday in October.
She says, "Well I been out all week with the 'flu' so I will find out."
I offered to cover and taught them back to back while people kept looking around asking where the usual faces were.
I offered to cover and taught them back to back while people kept looking around asking where the usual faces were.
"I have been getting this crazy dizziness when I stand up. Never had it before. Started the last month or so. Is it the workouts?"
"I have been getting this crazy dizziness when I stand up. Never had it before. Started the last month or so. Is it the workouts?"
Her best friend walked into my class and said she was home with a “really bad flu or strep. IT’S GOING AROUND RIGHT NOW!”
Her best friend walked into my class and said she was home with a “really bad flu or strep. IT’S GOING AROUND RIGHT NOW!”
She cleared her throat twice before she even started talking.
“You doing okay?” I asked.
She cleared her throat twice before she even started talking.
“You doing okay?” I asked.
"We did not come to social media to preach covid consciousness. We did not come to push any political ideology.
We came to find the ones who relate. And to track variants and..."
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"We did not come to social media to preach covid consciousness. We did not come to push any political ideology.
We came to find the ones who relate. And to track variants and..."
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For over 6 years, I have walked these rooms carrying the weight of a body broken by betrayal.
For over 6 years, I have walked these rooms carrying the weight of a body broken by betrayal.
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A family member woke and spoke it like an afterthought: “I don’t know why I have a runny nose again.”
The day unfolded in the same unbroken rhythm, sniffling, coughing, the wet, endless sound of a throat that refused to clear.
A family member woke and spoke it like an afterthought: “I don’t know why I have a runny nose again.”
The day unfolded in the same unbroken rhythm, sniffling, coughing, the wet, endless sound of a throat that refused to clear.
It turns the infected into denial zombies who attack anyone speaking the truth.
I’ve watched it claim family and friends, even people in the small community here.
It turns the infected into denial zombies who attack anyone speaking the truth.
I’ve watched it claim family and friends, even people in the small community here.
My fingers and toes turn bright red and swollen in the heat, after exercise, or a hot bath.
It’s not Raynaud’s, POTS or dysautonomia. Just another souvenir from Covid.
My fingers and toes turn bright red and swollen in the heat, after exercise, or a hot bath.
It’s not Raynaud’s, POTS or dysautonomia. Just another souvenir from Covid.
Her mother instinct refused to let it rest. Doctors removed them both. Both came back abnormal.
Last September, he had his adenoids taken out after endless “sinus infections.”
Her mother instinct refused to let it rest. Doctors removed them both. Both came back abnormal.
Last September, he had his adenoids taken out after endless “sinus infections.”
Windows up, car silent.
Then through the metal and glass comes this man walking through the parking lot:
Windows up, car silent.
Then through the metal and glass comes this man walking through the parking lot: