C84 Traps and tears

Date = 1 August

Place = San Francisco (UCSF Medical Center)

POV - Aria

I’m starting to realize that the human body has strange coping mechanisms to ensure survival.

Like right now … sitting here in the ER, on a hospital cot in my blood-spattered sundress — I have the overwhelming urge to tell a joke. Why? The hell if I know. Probably some primal