Bethany May
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Just an adventurous soul stuck in a receptionists life.
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Trigger Warning - S/A In through the nose… out through the mouth. I fill my lungs until they start to ache, and hold it. Keep it there, feel the oxygen flood in to my blood stream and relax my muscles. Then I count. 40 seconds and my brain nudges towards panic. 50 seconds and my arm twitches, the ache becoming a dull throb; my lungs begging for release. 60 seconds and my eyes shut as fog slowly creeps over my mind; threatening to submerge my memories and drown my thoughts, but I hold on. 30 seconds longer and my whole body is trapped somewhere between panic and resignation, teetering on the edge of giving up.
By Bethany May4 years ago in Fiction
Tough Cookie.
To My Hero, Now, this was harder than I expected it to be. Hero is such a big word that holds so much responsibility, should this be rewarded to my parents? Or maybe my Grandma? Brother? Best friend? The woman I met who saves the elephants? They all in their own right deserve this title.
By Bethany May4 years ago in Motivation
A Summer to Remember.
I splash my face with cold water, in part to wake me up, in part to cool me down. It’s burning heat in the middle of a Staten Island summer, there’s hyped up Disney style music blaring a quarter mile down the road in a crude effort to fill the hordes of sleepy children piling out of school buses with some semblance of camp enthusiasm. My head pounds to the tune of Hannah Montana as I reach for the sun block, dabbing it on my face like a dot to dot puzzle. Hoping in vain that it’ll be enough to mask the dark circles encroaching my tired blue grey eyes, my nose glowing like a beacon I decide to go for the old school lifeguard, nose smothered in a layer of mayo look. The freckles smattering my face beginning to join up like a reverse mitosis creating a look of chaos in a crowd, I bundle my dark curly hair in a loose bun on the top of my head. Grabbing a coffee, I head up to the pool to help open up for the morning.
By Bethany May4 years ago in Fiction
