by Shannon Peil
The dust covering this old, forgotten dictionary could have choked me if I hadn't been wearing my respirator. I looked around and everyone was wandering away, making scraping noises with their plastic covered boots against the tiles. Opening this dictionary, flipping to a random page, I closed my eyes and ran my index finger to a random word. I exhaled deeply and the sweat dripped from my eyes, breath fogging up the inside of my plastic face-cage. 'Asbestosis,' it said, deliberately, coldly. At this moment, standing alone in a closed-down nuclear weapons facility, holding my dictionary, wearing my respirator, I believed in God for just a second.
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Shannon Peil runs amphibi.us for kicks and hopes the DoE isn't mad about this one.
20091213
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5 comments:
this really choked me up.
Your blog is such a breath of fresh air, so delightful and joyous! A real source of inspiration, thank you for your many morsels of goodness.
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Thank You.
Shannon, this is poignant. I could feel the weight of his lungs.
Good 6.
Thank you. It's a true story.
Very nice, Shannon. The last sentence was powerful
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