For the last week or so, my head has felt like a fried egg — overeasy and soft, a runny center, threatening to spill out everywhere. The pain radiates out from where my temporomandibular joints connect my jawbone to my skull. My teeth ache, too, and the soreness illuminates my head in a hellish halo, an aura of agony. The discomfort is so intense that at night, unable to get comfortable enough to sleep, I fantasize about knocking my jaw back into alignment with a mallet,
small pleasures
small pleasures
small pleasures
For the last week or so, my head has felt like a fried egg — overeasy and soft, a runny center, threatening to spill out everywhere. The pain radiates out from where my temporomandibular joints connect my jawbone to my skull. My teeth ache, too, and the soreness illuminates my head in a hellish halo, an aura of agony. The discomfort is so intense that at night, unable to get comfortable enough to sleep, I fantasize about knocking my jaw back into alignment with a mallet,