Nocticadia

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 18h 36m

Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the ol...

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B illie Holiday droned on in the background of my dorm room, as I jotted notes from my expository writing class.

I had a meeting with my preceptor to discuss one of the topics that would make up a shit ton of essays I’d be expected to write before the big final at the end of the semester.

I’d selected The Evolution of Biomedicine , thinking it’d be relevant to my degree, but I hadn’t preempted that the class would be boring as hell and taught by a man who didn’t know the meaning of inflection.

The Very Thought of You came on, and I paused, the song taking me back to when I was younger and my mother would play an entire record of Billie Holiday while she cooked.

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