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How strange it must feel to be 89-years-old with a heart pumping inside you that’s as timeworn as your face, its deep wrinkles and age spots surrounding beautiful brown eyes that, admirably, are the only organs that haven’t seemed to age. I bet it remembers how it was once powered by the energy and zest of a nationally acclaimed university band, but nowadays relies on the motivation of a single skilled drummer boy wearing the colors of Christmas and the scent of apple pie.
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Kayla PongracKayla Pongrac is an avid writer, reader, tea drinker, and vinyl record spinner. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in theNewerYork, Split Lip Magazine, Oblong, The Bohemyth, HOOT, DUM DUM Zine, and Nat. Brut, among others. When she's not writing creatively, she's writing professionally—for two newspapers and a few magazines in her hometown of Johnstown, PA. To read more of Kayla's work, visit www.kaylapongrac.com or follow her on Twitter @KP_the_Promisee. |
