HeyJaredAmanda Writes, Etc
A home for all of my literary publications, manic writings, and 2AM thoughts.
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- Jul 21, 2026
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- Jul 19, 2026
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Oranges (opens the original)
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I don’t like the taste of oranges anymore.Not since medication time at the nurses window.With a starch, white hospital blanket pulled tight around me, I’d sit in my ochre colored scrubs across the small medical office. Too sick to stand. There, I’d wait for the faux orange flavored medication to fill the hollows of my mouth. As the nurse slammed down on the silent knight with a loud ker-chunk, I’d feel the vibration cut through my thin, goose-bumped skin, and rattle my aching bones as she crushe
Take Care (opens the original)
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Two words can now send shivers down my spine. They can make sweat glisten and dampen the nape of my neck. They can make my stomach drop an inch, as if the ground gave way beneath me. Two genuinely harmless words, used in one common phrase of general well-wishing usually shared in passing: Take care. The first time it happened was when I saw my distant relative in traffic. Hearing a beep beside me, I looked over to see my dad’s cousin stopped in the lane beside me, waving and smiling. Tammy was t
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