My Cardboard Balcony

All right! So! What happened after my last introspection? Weeeelllll... - I got to go to my third seder ever with family, friends, and loved ones. - I enjoyed Easter brunch with my wife, parents, and in-laws. - I got Monday off from work. - I wound up being absent Tuesday due to a horrid migraine. Ouch. - I had my students discuss authority and why we resist it at times. - I ate a big shrimp burrito. - I got to see Mamma Mia! at the high school I work at. - Now I get to celebrate my cousin's 80th birthday on Sunday. - And the yearbook's so very, very close to being done. Now. This is where it gets silly. For nineteen days straight, the oneword™ website had not been updated, and in fact, its security certificates became outdated. Now, I wrote about this situation jokingly in my sonnet last week, but my OneWord entries were the only regularly occurring segments on my blog. I just feel like, if this black hole trend kept going, I needed to do something else. Welp - t

Cold Veins by Belinda Roddie Her heart never started beating. And yet, she lived forever.

After sitting and staring in the same spot for nineteen days, I couldn't help but notice a small, flickering white light in the distance. It was quite dark in the space, so I had to, ironically, squint to get a good look. The light was stark, and cold, but it felt welcoming. I reached out and touched it. There, I felt a new word form in my throat. At long last, I saw letters. At long last, I could speak again.