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Submitted to Contest #319
Her skin simmered hot with the fever. Rosy cheeks on a pale face slicked with sweat. My hand trembled as it lay on her forehead, quickening my breath as the heat penetrated my palm and moved quickly through my arm. I wanted to cry out from the sharpness of it, but I could hear Mamaw’s scolding words echo in my mind:“You must bear the pain. To heal means to take from the inflicted. The serpent must always stay coiled within.”Her warning became my mantra. As the woman’s body cooled and the last of the shivers left me, I had earned a smiling no...
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