Chapters tagged medical

by Zeebop

Chapter 29

Jason crushed the beer can under the heel of his heavy workboot. He rubbed his face as he picked up another candle. He picked up the flattened can and sat the candle in the middle of it, to balance it on his knee. "After that encounter with the Alligator Woman, we stayed in the...

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Chapter 34

"She survived," Latoya said, as she uncoiled herself from her brother, and rose to pick up another candle. "Though not unscathed. This is a story I like to call... > INK POISONING Her head ached. The doctor had assured her that was normal. Warned her to be careful, since her sk...

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Chapter 37

Anya rose to pick up a candle a few feet away. She held it up to her upper right arm. There was a pentagram in a circle there, surrounded by circles of zodiac signs and Hebrew characters. "The pentagram is an odd symbol. Depending on the context, it can be a symbol of protection...

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Chapter 41

"Nothing lasts forever. The sleepers must awaken sometime, the laughter ends, the spunk drips out of the spent cock for the final time," Latoya said. Her brother, Leroy, handed her a candle. "So it was with Marcus and Antonia. In a story I call... > ADHARMA The television playe...

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Chapter 43

Jason lit another cigarette off the next candle. He took the smoke into his lungs, and let it trail out of his nostrils. "This story," he said, "is called > TROUSER SNAKE In the sideshow, there are those who are born odd. And there are the gaffs, the fakes, the beards we glue...

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Chapter 50

"Now this story," Jason said, as he took a few steps to secure a candle. "This one you might have trouble believing. Not that some of the stories I've said haven't stretched the limits of what people might believe. After all, there's a limit to human oddities. A limit to surgery...

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Chapter 75

"Of course, not all horrors are about old things," Leroy said, as he fetched another candle. "There are plenty of new horrors. I knew a woman who learned that firsthand. I call it... > TRANSPORCINE Chronic illness is not something you can escape from. Not a curse that can be br...

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Chapter 80

There were so few candles left now, compared to when they had begun. Even Asenath in her white dress looked like a corpse in a shroud as she picked one up. "I remember a story from the 1920s. A woman who wasn't satisfied with her lover, and thought she found a way to improve thi...

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Chapter 87

"There is more than one way to raise the dead," Asenath said with a smile. "As a friend of mine at university found out. Money was an issue, and she answered an advertisement for a job that would pay her schooling, room, and board for the rest of the year. This story I call > TH...