Creative Nonfiction

The Mexican tetra fish is an anomaly. While some river-dwelling tetras are able to regenerate their heart tissue, cave-dwelling tetras only grow scar tissue over the damage. My heart goes out to the cave-dwelling fish. Some of us can only do our best to survive the damage.

You had never been taught why you had a belly button. Now you understand that your navel is the physical scar of your expulsion from your mother’s body.

Teacher who sits through active shooter training in the auditorium and is told to examine her classroom for projectiles to throw at a shooter. Teacher who practices throwing a stapler in her empty classroom. Teacher who buys a new stapler because the old one broke after she threw it just one time.