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Weekly Contest #339
I had been delirious with pain when they brought me into the apothecarist’s hidden hospital wing. Everyone knew his predilection for treating known maladies with his poultices, potions and salves, but few knew that during the war he had been one of the leading doctors on the front, and had saved not only lives, but limbs and minds as well.So, they said, he barely flinched when he saw the blood gushing from the knife wound in my belly.I was immediately immobilized on a cot in the backrooms of the underground network he shared with other heale...
There was only a bit of light left in the western sky when my phone rang. At the time, I had been downtown window shopping for pastries I certainly didn't need. My groceries were comfortably in hand and whether or not I gave into temptation, the homemade spaghetti and meatballs were going to be good. I was eyeballing the chocolate croissants as I answered the phone, trying to convince myself that I wanted to be talked out of buying it. "Hello, who's this?""Hey, it's me.""It –" my brain short-circuited for a sec as I gathered myself. Of all t...
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