Learning to Smile

Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy on Unsplash

There once was a woman with a tumor in her brain. It grew and grew. At first it silently pushed roots and branches into the dark, and went unnoticed. But in time, it became voracious. It pushed and squeezed and began to harm and kill. It had to go.

So the doctor cut her open, along the cheek and into the skull. The surgery was successful. The invader repulsed, her healthy brain let out a sigh of relief and went back to writing and…