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EMERGING NARRATIVES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Student Creative Writing

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Original Photography by Richard L. Weiss, MD

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Brief Thoughts on the Impact of COVID-19

by Thomas Sommers Today, I saw a post about a father from my town who has been on a ventilator for two weeks and is finally showing signs...

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by Emily Shea Dad sits in the basement on the phone with work discussing how the company will survive the shut down I sit upstairs in my...

What COVID Means to Me

by Jose Saucedo To be honest, when the idea that we could potentially get time off of clerkship was floating around, I was kind of...

A Poem

by Kirsten Sandgren In the park the other day the chalk art was of hand sanitizer bottles my little girl reached out to the other...

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by Ethan Samet-Marram On the first night of panic, I stopped in Trader Joe’s. I couldn’t help wondering: why were lasagna noodles gone,...

COVID-19: Impact on Me and My Community

by Monique Sager I’m going to write about the silver lining of Covid-19, and that is the new sense of connectedness I have with my...

Opening the Door

by Cheyanne Rivera I sit on the stair staring at the door as the doorbell rings again. Open it? I shouldn't. It's probably a package for...

Not So Equalizing

by Canada Montgomery They say COVID-19 does not discriminate, that the virus affects everyone the same. However, that is a fallacy. While...

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by Victoria Moffitt The magnolia trees were in bloom when we were barred from the hospital and two weeks became twelve. The sky shone a...

Love in the Time of COVID

by EB Messineo When I think of COVID, I think of arms outstretched & flapping & empty as the nest where the ospreys used to roost: a...

Control

by Emily Lawrence I want to tell you exactly what to do, and I want you to listen. I want to grab you, shake you, make you see how...

Personal Impact of COVID

by Samantha Kisare The inevitable, collective grief that will come from this pandemic weighs on me constantly. I’m bracing for it. How...

On COVID

by Jason Kaufman I regularly reflect on the “naturalness” of pandemic. Like a hurricane, pandemic is something to which we must submit,...

I Need

by Jennifer Jolivert I need to buy groceries. I need to play with the cat for at least 10 minutes, or he’ll go stir-crazy. I need to...

What I thought when I streamed Easter mass

by Jeanne Farnan Standing in my living room I could see Every marbled detail on the open expanse Where usually a crowd would be Save for...

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