Stories tagged “allergy”
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Might As Well Face It
It happened when I was 15. It happened because she happened. Her name was Heather, and she was everything. She was smart, pretty, playful, fun… she was incredible. In a school filled with kids all trying to fit in and Be Popular she somehow manag...
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Mer-made
She gagged – retching as she doubled over, blood-stained vomit pouring out of her over the beach. Shaking, she purged again and again until all that was left were dry spasms of pain. She grabbed at her stomach, feeling the small gobbet of fish sh...
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Shellshocked
She hadn’t seen him since that awful day in the food court, when she’d nervously admitted her feelings, worried he might panic and reject her. Instead he’d sneezed. They’d thought nothing of it until the redness and swelling sta...