#FlashTag: Shards

#FlashTag: Shards

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Photograph by Jeffrey F. Barken

 

 

 

 

#FlashTag: Shards

 

 

#FlashTag @monologging “Fill them up,” drunk Marc ordered the waitress. Lila wrapped his bleeding hand in a napkin.

#FlashTag @monologging The waitress eyed Marc’s wound, preferring to ignore his injury. She replaced the broken glass & handed Lila a towel.

#FlashTag@ Lila watched the waitress replace the broken glass & fill Marc’s to the brim. “Don’t make a scene,” she begged.

#FlashTag@ Marc took a long swig. Lila sat in silence as he emptied half the glass. “Don’t tell me don’t,” he said.

#FlashTag@NairobiCollins Parkinson’s worsening, Marc held his mind steady: It was all he could hold. Lila held too: Sickness and Health.

#FlashTag@ They were drowning. Nobody could make up their mind. “You’re still bleeding,” Lila said, squeezing Marc’s hand.

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