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I wrote this piece following an injury I sustained on the ski slopes. Part of it was published in the Waterford Writers’ Anthology Volume 2 in 2019.

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Apr 14, 2024
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You have spent your life waiting for the ground to open up, and one day it does. You are on a ski slope. Not a steep one, just a baby one, warming up. You are inching forward, taking a careful turn, when a body slams into yours.

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