Flight

A Maguire
3 min readDec 30, 2020

“Where’s the IV? What is she? Forty-three kilograms? Dammit, that makes the dose too high. No, give me zero point two mils of tricyclic clomipramine. Now, please.”

A sharp, deep prick and burning. The voices didn’t stop, they merely sped up, getting louder, beating a strange cadence against the inside of her skull. The needles never shut out those voices, they only took away her understanding of them. Memory remained. Drifts of it, like autumn…

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A Maguire

Writer, dreamer, developmental editor, book coach, farmer and mother.