_____When my brother died, he was no longer a human being. The second word is a verb, and conveys movement, active participation in existing. The pictures of my brother capture a brief spark of life, stilled breath: smiling childhood boy with blonde hair over the eyes, to the lurch towards brooding adulthood captured in a yearbook portrait. Who
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I love the line: "Mangled? I think of my brother now as a body, the shrapnel left behind as his soul exploded from its narrow cage. A helix of bone, blood, hair."
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how's that for biology?
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Hows that for biology?
Thats what I learned in biology atleast......
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plz comment back
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i must say, i don't like the stalker-ish implications of someone who knows my brother reading my journal, and commenting.
anyway, it's fiction, friend.
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...mom? ew.
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