Jennifer Patino

NaPoWriMo 2023 — Day 15: “Festival Days”

these are festival days —
hot, sticky adventures
where music is the thing

in the city that carved
her name from old
bones and crumbling
tombstones

a choice questioned is silenced
by the sweetest kiss

medicine grows
from the fertile ground
to cradle deep soul wounds

6 Word Story Challenge

I’m existing as a shadow who can’t find the body it belongs to.

“Trying to Catch Dust in a Windstorm”

Some of my microfiction included in the “#horrorprompt Anthology Volume 1”

These days when breath is hard, when new pains & new ailments nearly overtake me, I’m finding it easier to pray through it.

I’m being as patient as possible