A Dublin Fall in Fall (Memoir)

Maddalena possessed a fear of falling, so she did just that.

By Maddalena Beltrami

In that brief moment of twilight, where the thoughts are as random and as powerful as can be, I think I have to tell my mother what happened to me.

The thought is so real that when I awaken a few seconds later to the realization that, “you can’t, she’s dead”, the force of …