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The Girl and the Flea

Amanda Neal

Submitted to Contest #296

Oftentimes, the human subconscious will protect its host from the upsetting reality of what is unfolding before them. A shooting victim who asks the paramedic, “is it really that bad?”; a patient, conscious during brain surgery, who only remembers the cave-like atmosphere of the sterile cover surrounding her, not the discussions of the neurosurgeons talking about her tumor resection. A young woman, getting home from a short morning shift at her dead-end retail job, scratching the back of her thigh. The subconscious convinces this woman that ...

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