Narrative Pain

Photo by Mrika Selimi on Unsplash Junior year of high school, first week of soccer practice in the humid, 90-degree heat of a Kansas August day, and I’m running lines up and down steep, 70-degree hills. My quad muscles burn deep and heavy with pain like barbells strapped to my waist, and a dizzy fog makes my head swirl. As I dig my right cleat into the grass to take my next stride, my ankle snaps beneath my weight, and I tumble backwards to the bottom of the … More Narrative Pain