Like Taking Candy from a Baby
Posted on August 16, 2013 by A&U in Positively Literary
[NONFICTION] Like Taking Blood from a Baby “We’ll have to take blood from a vein in the baby’s head,” Eugene said. He frowned when Tina and I hesitated. “Babies don’t feel pain there,” he insisted. The preemie nursery was a swamp. To reach the clear plastic enclosures where babies lay immobilized in webs of tubing, [...]
Summer Reading 2011: Test Run
Posted on July 18, 2011 by A&U in Noteworthy, Positively Literary
Nonfiction by Rob Zukowski Test Run It was the summer of 1987 and I was newly out. Like any twenty year-old having just thrust open the closet doors, I was looking for experiences and adventures. I’d spent my young life nestled in suburbia, living between the northernmost Bronx and southernmost Westchester. In the early days [...]
