Inspired Writer Contest Finalist

Flashing Lights Still Make Me Wince

“I might have a seizure,” she said, as if predicting rain.

Kimberly Garts Crum
Inspired Writer
Published in
8 min readJul 25, 2020

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Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

I cover my eyes at the strobe-like quality of certain movie scenes, each time recalling my first EEG — the tangled headgear, the mingling aromas of alcohol, glue and solvents, the sweet syrupy sedative, a brief sleep and, upon…

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Kimberly Garts Crum
Inspired Writer

Essayist. Editor. Teacher. Seeker. Owns Shape & Flow Writing Instruction. Co-edits a Medium publication, LandslideLit(erary), accepting prose and poetry.