One thing I learned after having pneumonia: medical and chemical terms are long. Pneumonia. Costochondritis. Teva-Salbutamol. Apo-Fluticasone. Auro-moxifloxacin. These are some terms I’ve become familiar with, unfortunately, over the two-week period I’ve had pneumonia. Costochondritis, I feel that I owe an explanation, is an inflammation of the upper ribs that causes pain but is typically…
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, insomnia is a contagious disease. It spreads throughout the town of Macondo like a curse, and people affected start to lose their memory. Before the memory loss begins, however, there’s a period of feverish productivity. Carpenters, leaders, and workers–they all prosper. Everyone looks upon this condition…
Seorae Island was in fact a mixture of auroras and personas. It swished, sighed, glimmered, and beckoned. Different voices resided at its shores than its land ones. I walked along the narrow beach, orange light wetting the sands, and stooped over the water glistening at my ankles. I felt like a queen of the island,…