6 Hearts

It's true, Jack Pinsky had six hearts.  He had of course been born with just one but as he grew older and took on the many responsibilities that come with age, he found he needed a separate heart for each separate aspect of his life.  He had: 1. a heart to love his wife with.  2. a heart to love his kids with.  3. a heart to take risks with strangers with.  4. a heart to use at work (he was a contractor).  5. a heart to blame all his shame and disappointments on, and  6. a heart used to store all his loneliness.

Jack lived in constant fear of a heart attack.  It wasn't dying itself he feared.  It wasn't leaving his wife and kids behind.  It wasn't any of that. He simply feared dying without knowing which of his six hearts had finally failed him. 

Reviews

[gravitylava]

This is great, I love the last sentence. Good write =D
-michelle

[Dustin Chang]

There was an art installation in a park somewhere that you grab on to a contraption and the lights that are wired will blink with your heart beat. It becomes your own light show, kind of. I thought what would happen if a person has a heart attack while doing this? Would the lights go berserk? Would it be the greatest light show ever for everyone to see?

Great write. And I agree with you about a writer being born a writer one hundred percent.