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Submitted to Contest #42
Just in case the parasites were crawling around the hospital, she held her legs up to her chest on top of the chair and made sure she had a clear view of the floor. It was said that they were too small to notice, but she tried to locate them anyway; it disturbed her to imagine a small bug eating its way through her. Maybe it had already happened—she didn’t know, but she wanted to make sure. Her period hadn’t come for two months now and that was the only obvious sign that the parasite manifested. Almost all of her friends had it, but no...
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