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Weekly Contest #280
This story contains themes of death and dying. Reader discretion is advised. Tell me, John, once and for all. Did you refuse medical care because you wanted to die? The pain was overwhelming. It was sucking all the joy out of mylife. That is not the way I wanted to live. I wanted to enjoy my time with you and the kids, and after a while, I couldn’t even do that. Maybe a doctor could have helped you. I never would have given up the search. I would have hunted the rest of my life so we could bring you to a doctor who is successful with chronic...
Weekly Contest #268
This story contains sensitive content about death and dying. Reader discretion is advised. Before my husband John made me a widow, we spent all our time deceiving ourselves. His condition, his disabling chronic pain, worked with him to hide the truth. Chronic pain had no issues with maintaining the ruse. John blamed the chronic pain to explain why the doctor was wrong when he tried to get him to take heart medication. The doctor was incompetent, he would say. John gets stressed at doctors’ offices, so he reasoned his blood pressure always go...
Weekly Contest #264
The Gribbles family was known in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia as the poorest family in Lee County for generations. The hard, clay, lime-ridden dirt was richer than the Gribbles. Harley oft remembered having to share clothing, shoes, and silverware with his brothers and sisters. Thus, when he managed to make his own money as a welder instead of spending the better part of his days inside a moonshine bottle, a revolution in his genetic lineage, all he asked his godforsaken wife was to keep the dishes clean and lots of silverware on ha...
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