Stories tagged “fatigue”
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Of Records, Slumber, and Rodents
Shift done, I stumbled from the bridge and down the steps. Someone said something congratulatory, or maybe it was derogatory. My brain was pounding and pulsing so hard I wouldn’t have known if it was even in English. Stairs, ladder, corridor, hat...
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Cold
I’m always so fucking cold. I’m always freezing- chilled to the bone. The kind of cold that feels like it will never go away. That’s the part that gets to me, more than anything else. More than the fatigue, the dizziness, my constant ...
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Under a Shady Tree
Contended I sat beneath a shady tree. True, at the moment it only shaded me from the cool, pale rays of the moon, but for some reason I insisted upon calling it a shady tree and humming a children’s song to myself. The day was done and spent, as ...
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Scar City
At its root, class, economics is the study of incentives: we put incentives in place to stop people from wrongdoing, like cheating in tests, theft, homicide… Like going to war, sir? You wake, soaked and aching. The sky’s a snuffed out mess ...
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I Get It
You think life sucks. You count your joys and miseries only to find the ratio terribly unbalanced. You wander the hours drenched in melancholy, a victim of your circumstances. I get it. You spend your days in self-diagnosis. Your highs are high and ...