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Situs Inversus
Gordie told Goldie how their final push of lovemaking reminded him of mashing the gas pedal while driving over a train track hump in an attempt to leave his small town, vertically, for one second of desperate flight. At that moment, Goldie heard his heart beating on his right side. Are Gordie’s internal organs somehow reversed? she wondered as they lay there.
“Dextrocardia,” he said, “heart on the right.” Situs inversus was real, he assured her: There were people whose organs were a mirror image of the norm. How little she knew him, Goldie thought, and got out of bed.
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“Situs Inversus” is from my upcoming book Bonsai 100. This is a book of “drabbles,” the term used in the UK for micro-stories of exactly 100 words. Bonsai 100 is currently under submission with a regional press. Cross your fingers and wish me luck!
