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J. Patrick Gasparini

Writer of poetry about nature, the human condition, mental illness, and other topics.

My stories

Bloody Noses

Mental illness waits for none, but stays for many. It’s like the gnat that buzzes in your ear in summertime. But it’s also like the soccer ball to...
Cherry

Dawn

French horns play their music, with light trickling down over the hills and the silent forest to the new buds of trees that will one day become great...

Fragmented Soul

She sits in her wheelchair, glossy silver hair falling gently below her ears. She reminds me of my Grammy, in the simplicity of her soft expression,...

Means to an End

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Why am I so scared of this brain I have? It is me, but it isn’t, and that’s the reason. Yeah, I know all of it: the neurons and sulci, the thalamus...