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Weekly Contest #197
The Cardinal’s Fortuity CONTENT WARNING: violence, terminal illness, suicide mentions. What are you so afraid of? Battles are fought in classic legends of good and evil. In movies in a compact theater, filled with the smell of popcorn and sweaty feet. Battles are sword fights and fire-breathing dragons. Battles are fiction. I shouldn’t have been sitting in a hospital bed at nineteen years old, my life barely begun — I shouldn’t have been paralyzed out of fear from the inside out. Absolutely terrified for the doctor’s return, where I wou...
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