Things I Did While Waiting for My Husband’s MRI to Happen
Alina Zollfrank
May 17, 2024
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1. Reread the stern words, hammered into a sterile printout. The scope results: a scythe. Images of an alien inhabiting his inner world.
2. Notice the footprints on our living-room floor. Briefly consider cleaning.
3. Three breaths later. Hug him. Hug the kids. Hug myself. Hug the dogs. Tilt my head when he says that he doesn’t want to hug right now.
