Alexis Collazo offered a session on May 11.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Alexis M. Collazo writes in a wide variety of styles, forms and genres. She has worked as a freelance writer, website copywriter and content marketing blogger. Most recently, she has contributed to NeonSplatter.com and DIY MFA’s 5onFri blog series. She offers a variety of workshops online from her current home in Pennsylvania. Visit www.alexismcollazo.com for information on current and upcoming workshops.


Jump to Susan Wadds’ piece.

Jump to Alexis Collazo’s piece.


Transplant by Susan Wadds

I am a woman with a young man’s memories, a disheveled young man’s yearnings, and a reckless young man’s weaknesses. I am an opera-loving, middle-aged woman with a decent husband and a refined life. I am a woman who now breathes without strain, walks without pause, and sleeps with relative assurance that she will wake.

While waiting, I found that twenty-nine years was the longest living heart, the average being twelve point five years. For lungs the longest was almost fifteen years, the average being eight. Knowing that I wouldn’t be fortunate enough to simply wake up dead but rather, without intervention, I’d continue my suffocating decline, I would take the least number of years—should someone be generous enough to die.

The good doctor assures me that this memory of a wild ride in the night rain, this sudden taste for all things fried and a distaste for classical music, has to do with renewed vitality and not with a young man called Daniel.


Untitled by Alexis Collazo

I am reformed and reenvisioned

Looking for something deeper

A grounding force connecting

With the grand plan

I am just a small piece of

The infinite Universe

No longer lost but still

Looking for a place to fit


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