PHOTO PROMPT © Trish Nankivell Once a week for twelve weeks each year for the last decade we gathered. Damaged goods some might say. No matter what else was swirling in the loo in each of our lives, we knew we could depend on her benevolent smile and her gentle voice to rest in when…
Tag: COVID-19
dVerse — Meet the Bar — Unmasked
Unmasked It began with a sneezeclenched into a wheeze.Squeak-rolled by breezy hazmat suitclad orderlies to the ordered chaos of the vent. No, wait – it began with a date,obstinately masklessface; my smile always wins;not undotted eyes nor pate. I lied, I lie shunned in bright but unsunnedpincushioned, bruisedintubated half-life. Clueless, haunted, ragingthe red-capped famviews my…
PSA Covid-19 antibodies aka Convalescent Plasma Therapy
I talked with my younger son earlier this week. He went to donate plasma and learned that nowadays when someone donates plasma they test for the presence of Covid-19 antibodies. From what I have heard about the swab Covid-19 tests, they are extremely uncomfortable to have done. If you want to learn if you’ve had…
#FFFC 80 — life alone is not enough
When the people on the TV in a land far away started dying we were detached. When death knocked on our doors in the public places there was denial. When we brought it home to our loved ones, who sickened and died, we began to believe. As the killer morphed, evading our now-concerted efforts to…
Immortan Speaks
Paul Vincent Cannon inspired me to create this meme.
#FF — lullaby
Tourists returned to the village of Hualong, after enduring five years of rigidly enforced international travel restrictions. Three years prior, laissez faire attitudes and practices had killed or disabled twenty million worldwide. The vaccine was developed from a tropical fungus that could be easily mass-produced. Mae could hear them in her upper apartment over the…
Tao Talk 