I Was Writing About A Medical Mystery. Then I Experienced My Own

Katie Gutierrez, Time
Thu, 09/19/2024 - 10:25am

My left eye performs magic tricks: now you see it, now you don’t. My daughter disappears beside me on the shoreline of a beach, where the murky Gulf foams, darkens the sand, rears back to colder depths. I hold up my arm: beyond my wrist, my hand is gone, though its shadow remains—a phantom dismemberment.

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