Tag: blood

  • Drew Blood

    they drew blood, sure enough soliciting my veins as if touched by a dirty homeless person the thread of string winced and jumped back trying to avoid the inevitable

  • Needling

    A slip of the hand and prick. You’re bleeding. Your nerves are momentarily severed. A prick and you’re in a world of agony for a moment of time.   Once, when I was a child, my mother dropped a needle. She was in the middle of telling me not to run through the living room…