

Sara Sherburne
- Oct 10, 2022
- 8 min
Judgment Day
Have you ever felt death immobilize you like a Gravitron ride, pin you with inertia and spin you relentlessly, rattling nausea through...
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Sara Sherburne
- May 10, 2022
- 6 min
Parked at a Loss
Parked at a loss. It was Marianne who said that, or maybe her name was Melanie. In my Young Adult Cancer Creative Writing Group. I...
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Sara Sherburne
- Feb 1, 2022
- 7 min
This is Water
I peer into the mirror and consider the person before me: her face is wan and thin, with eyebrows like whispers too quiet to hear. Her...
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Sara Sherburne
- Dec 22, 2021
- 7 min
Chaos and Control
The other day I saw a woman scream. She crossed the sidewalk perpendicular to me some 50 yards away and, without breaking stride, threw...
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Sara Sherburne
- Nov 15, 2021
- 7 min
Fake it til you: lie down on the floor and curse the people having fun
At the Reno Roller Kingdom, where it smells like feet and butter and popcorn that hides beneath sofas, time runs laps around the rink to...
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Sara Sherburne
- Oct 17, 2021
- 13 min
Hospital blues (beiges?)
I shove my IV cart a few feet in front of me and then shuffle to catch up before the tube yanks against my chest. The cart careens...
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Sara Sherburne
- Sep 21, 2021
- 8 min
I have what??
I think I used to feel invincible. Sinewed, joyful and naive in a world of possibilities, a thoroughbred on the racetrack of youth....
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