Breathing Space

A Short Story

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories, Literary, Romance
Cover of the book Breathing Space by Merilyn Simonds, Merilyn Simonds Publications
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Author: Merilyn Simonds ISBN: 9780994841841
Publisher: Merilyn Simonds Publications Publication: September 12, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Merilyn Simonds
ISBN: 9780994841841
Publisher: Merilyn Simonds Publications
Publication: September 12, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

Following the death of an uncle, a woman moves through a CT scanner to the brink of  her own mortality.

 

Originally published in Going Some Place: Creative Nonfiction Across Canada, edited by Lynne Van Luven, Coteau Books (2000).

 

Beep. Take a breath and hold it.

That is all.

Beep. Take a breath and hold it.

That is all.

Beep. Take a breath and hold it.

The machine gives the command and I obey, sucking in air as if through a straw. But have I taken in enough? My lungs are so full they quiver. Perhaps I have taken too much.

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Following the death of an uncle, a woman moves through a CT scanner to the brink of  her own mortality.

 

Originally published in Going Some Place: Creative Nonfiction Across Canada, edited by Lynne Van Luven, Coteau Books (2000).

 

Beep. Take a breath and hold it.

That is all.

Beep. Take a breath and hold it.

That is all.

Beep. Take a breath and hold it.

The machine gives the command and I obey, sucking in air as if through a straw. But have I taken in enough? My lungs are so full they quiver. Perhaps I have taken too much.

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