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Submitted to Contest #106
Do people fart when they’re on the operating table? During surgery I mean, once that anesthesia hits, you take a deep breath, you go to sleep, your muscles relax—all of them. I need someone to confirm that I won’t just let loose as soon as I knock out. Luckily the doctors and nurses will be wearing medical masks over their mouths and noses; who knows, they might even be all plugged up under there, secretly so as not to embarrass their customer. This is my main fear about my surgery, truly; the thought of me, lying naked with a...
Submitted to Contest #36
Aug 7, 2017 First of all, I understand that recording this on paper is I’ll-advised. It’s better if it all just goes away, erased from existence, erased from my mind…ahh the bliss. If only I hadn’t gone to the store that night, if only I had a little bit of will power, I wouldn’t be here right now. But here I am, at 3 a.m. unable to sleep for the fourth night in a row. I think I’m going to rip these pages out and burn them in a few days, it’ll just be nice to get this off my chest, out in the world so I’m not stuck wit...
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