Nonfiction | October 30, 2018

You instantly wake. Sit up in immediate terror to a tiny swirling couple in spectator brogues kicking the inside walls of your heart to a frantic big-band beat that undeniably is not normal.  This is an immediate betrayal of every constant you have known to be true.  You get out of bed and check your pulse.  It is so fast you can’t count it.

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