How Long and Far

How Long and Far

by Tricia Louvar

Often her speech went, in and out, like noise breaches on an analog dial. 

But then, when a metal tray held the top of her head, when the neurologist hokey pokied her directionality and photographed the fissures of her world, the desert bloom of her longevity spawned a riotous pattern of color. 

New life began.

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Originally published in Pen Pricks, an online literary magazine of micro-fiction. 2008 (now defunct).