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JoAnn Pushkin
JoAnn Pushkin

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Don’t look down. Don’t look down. Don’t look down.
Waves the size of skyscrapers explode beneath me as I creep across a busted metal beam in the middle of the North Sea, suspended at the base of an oil rig that’s in the process of collapsing. I’m crawling swiftly but carefully, knees sliding on the wet metal and eyes locked on the platform in front of me. Don’t look down.
I look down. The cold sea
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation