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.

Creative Nonfiction

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.

Creative Nonfiction

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