Diana MacPherson

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Nov, 2019

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“Insecticide” by Diana MacPherson

Submitted to Contest #51

Epilogue  I was having my brain removed. A sheet covered my whole body, even my face. I suppose it’s unsettling for students to catch sight of the face because it would make the object on the table seem too human. I have heard, however, that it isn’t the face as much as it is the hands that give medical students pause. They reflect on all the discussions the hands punctuated, the pets they patted, and the babies they caressed and it makes them sad.   I was only 29 when I ended up ...

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“No Way Out” by Diana MacPherson

Submitted to Contest #15

He had that feeling again. Like so many of his feelings, he didn’t have a name for it even though he’d experienced it many times before. It was unpleasant. It wrapped itself around his insides like a dark serpent and squeezed at his heart. It made him tense up his muscles and lean forward as his overworked brain tried desperately to squelch the long, drawn-out howl that perched behind his mouth, ready to leap to the outside. His sides ached to let it out…he knew, somehow, that letting that howl out would feel so satisfying. But he had to be ...

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