“What in the world are you reading?” I asked. “I haven’t seen you take your face out of that book in two days.” My sister, seemingly against her will, tore her eyes from the page to meet my gaze. It took her a second to readjust to being in the real world again before she…
I can feel my eyes beginning to roll before they actually do. The story, so engrossing mere moments ago, has just overreached what even my imagination deems realistic. I’m too close to the end now to simply give up, but I do so with a skeptical eyebrow raised. Deux ex machina, or “God from the…
I have seen some truly wonderful things working as a paramedic. My favorite example is when I delivered a baby in the back of my ambulance last year. Any terror I felt in the beginning was quickly dwarfed by the sheer panic I felt when the baby girl decided to come out breech. By God’s…
