Carmen Lizbeth Burke
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Involuntary Response
She hadn’t learned to swim. Childhood was more focused on fingers crossed that her lunch-lady mom hadn’t brought home the rubbery meatloaf she’d had already “eaten” that day. As a child, she never had a bike and she never got to see her favorite boyband in concert, the latter of which she regarded as a significant cruelty. Days were spent in survival mode- training her brain that moments of quiet are suspect, that anything resembling tranquility only means that malevolence is brewing. She developed a neck-tick to compliment her leg twitch. Her body thrashed to prevent her from screaming.
By Carmen Lizbeth Burke4 years ago in Humans
Involuntary
She hadn’t learned to swim. Childhood was more focused on fingers crossed that her lunch-lady mom hadn’t brought home the rubbery meatloaf she’d had already “eaten” that day. She never had a bike; she never got to see her favorite boyband in concert, the latter of which she regards as a significant cruelty. Days were spent in survival mode- training her brain that moments of quiet are suspect, that anything resembling tranquility only means that malevolence is brewing. She developed a neck-tick to compliment her leg twitch. Her body thrashed to prevent her from screaming.
By Carmen Lizbeth Burke4 years ago in Longevity
