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Roanoke Review

Volume XLV

What Your Eyeballs Smell Like When They Are Melting

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September 15, 2017 September 15, 2017/ Roanoke Review

"Nothing is as beautiful as an operating room before a laser is about to be fired directly into your eyeball. Admire the font Mr. Zapomatic 3000 is spelled in. Treasure the light dancing off the febreeze bottles they use to cover the smell of singed eyeballs because it might be the last chance you get."

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What your eyeballs smell like when they're melting, What to expect when you're getting laser eye surgery, Brennen Fahy, nonfiction, prose
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