Nardine Taleb is an Egyptian-American writer and speech therapist based in Cleveland, Ohio. Her work has been published in Hobart, The Commuter, and Frontier Poetry. She can be found on social media at @nardineta.

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MICRO

AND: Three Micros

By NARDINE TALEB

He coughed after he chain smoked; there was always some story stuck in his lung.