Afraid of Sleep

Beep. Beep. Beep. The heart rate monitor chirped out a persistent, annoying, rise-at-dawn bird that needed David’s missile to the head. Smash, thud. One less giant nuisance of a noise. Why was I thinking this way? I don’t hate birds. But I do hate hospitals. And yet here I am. Uncalled-for but present. Inhaling ammonia…

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And So It Begins

Two kilometers offshore of Lands End in Cornwall, England resides a bubbling outcrop island of porous rock. On this island, at the top of the highest peak, at the end of a wind battered path, sits Bleak Man’s Repose, a lighthouse constructed of shipped-in stone and smoothed by 243 years of gales and whipping water….

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