August 16th, 2026
Sara Valentiuk
Saving Us
The
emotion bled
from your
texts,
so
I fashioned mine
into an IV,
drip
drip
dripping electrolytes and saline
into every
sterile response,
a
desperate attempt
to keep us
alive. I
still don’t quite know
the
reason why
on a
random Tuesday
night,
we
f
l
a
t
l
i
n
e
d
.
.
.
Sara Valentiuk is a nontraditional undergraduate student at UW-Superior studying Writing and English. She spent most of her childhood with her nose in a book or putting pencil to page. Over the course of her academic career, she has been involved with The Nemadji Review at various capacities and will be forever grateful for the experience. Her words often manifest in various forms and explore the topics of motherhood, transformation, and healing. You can find her work in previous editions of The Nemadji Review and the Wingless Dreamer anthologies Mother’s Reverie and Petals, Pebbles, and Passing Hours, available on Amazon.
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