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Creative Essay, Personal

On Broken Bones and Alternate Lives

February 25, 2018October 15, 2019by Sydney Hartle9 Comments on On Broken Bones and Alternate Lives
On Broken Bones and Alternate Lives

On Friday two weeks ago I was supposed to be on a plane to Australia, beginning my master’s degree and my new life 10,000 miles away. Instead, I was lying in an operating room in my hometown, having a necrotic bone removed from the ball of my right foot.

Creative Essay, Examples, Personal

On Chronic Illness and Colonoscopies

September 20, 2017October 15, 2019by Sydney Hartle9 Comments on On Chronic Illness and Colonoscopies
On Chronic Illness and Colonoscopies

You get a very different perspective on life when it's 2 a.m. and you're cradling your cramping bowels as they play the part of Old Faithful geyser for the night (i.e. spewing scalding sulfuric water every 44 to 125 minutes).

Creative Essay, Examples, Personal, Writing

Snapshots of Lovelessness

July 30, 2017October 15, 2019by Sydney Hartle23 Comments on Snapshots of Lovelessness
Snapshots of Lovelessness

Picture this: I’m sitting at a table just outside the action in a bar in Darling Harbour, drunk on one too-expensive vodka soda and one-too-many cups of pregame goon. My head’s spinning. I rest it on my hand to prevent it from swiveling off my neck.

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