Lockdown Diary: Day 3

Melanie J Kirk
2 min readJan 7, 2021

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Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash

Yesterday, while shopping Sainsbury’s, I sneezed.

It was a perfectly innocent sneeze, caused by a fleck of dust, presumably. A year ago that would have been a perfectly ordinary happening, not so much as worthy of a tweet let alone an entire blog post. Now, however, a simple sneeze or cough is an act fraught with consequences and complications. Sneezing in public feels like a criminal act.

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Melanie J Kirk

Fiction editor. House sitter. Short story/flash fiction writer. Vegan. melaniekirkeditor.com