Gary Levi

After previous reinventions as a bona fide father, transactions lawyer, small business executive, and independent writer/editor, I'm pursuing my MA in Fiction at Johns Hopkins. I live with my wife and two cats (hers, not mine!) in the suburban woods of Medford, NJ, fully vaxxed and boosted but still COVID-cautious.

Dora’s Deathbed: First Movement

“I can’t feel a pulse,” Mae says, her rose-lacquered fingertips probing the carotid of her dying friend Dora. Mae’s a just-retired nurse, so what she says carries weight. Even though she’s here in her civilian capacity, like the rest of us, to watch Dora die.