Mystical Non-Fiction Challenge

A Mystical Encounter with Rosie

The night God sent Rosie to deliver a message

Carolyn Hastings
Write Under the Moon
5 min readSep 25, 2024

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Rosie, a year before she passed away — angel wings and halo added by author (author’s photo)

And there I was
in a synaptic blink
asleep-awake
a lightning rod of anxiety
shocking my solar plexus
a mighty thump
so intense
the mattress tremored
like an earthquake

then the aftershock
a bolus of adrenalin
direct into my heart
caught my breath
in a clinch
tensed every muscle fibre

I lay in the dark
stunned-afraid
my lived reality
of the past few days
crushing me
like a dry-roasted bean
in a coffee grinder

Please God don’t let him die
Not now
I just couldn’t bear it

Visions of my dad
gowned in ghostly white
upon a hospital bed
his tissue-thin skin
grey as grim death
flatlining

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Carolyn Hastings
Write Under the Moon

Well-practiced speech pathologist now practicing to be a children’s book writer — emphasis on practicing.