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Allergen 
by Elaine Pascale

Her throat is swollen with an itch that cannot be scratched.

Her face is full of boils that ooze and weep.

Her mouth contains sores that are red and pyretic.

She feels dizzy, nauseous, clumsy and clammy.

She has no regrets.

She forces down a potion of bat wings, millipede legs, and frog tongue.

As she waits, her symptoms dissipate:

her skin clears, her mouth no longer aches.

Her mind clears and the world straightens once again.

She knows she shouldn’t do it, but the struggle is real.

She knows she shouldn’t eat children, as her allergies worsen with each cherubic morsel.

She cannot help herself.

Even as the torment of her shocking sensitivity is still fresh,

she craves another meal.

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Fiction © Copyright Elaine Pascale
Image courtesy of Pixaby.com

More from Elaine Pascale:

The Kitchen Witches

The women of Cape Cod have a story that is dying to be told. If only they could live long enough to tell it.

When Fiona Walker is contracted to write about a party attended by her social circle, her friends begin dying. She captures the competition and misery of the women around her through three different stories.

In Wishes, Melanie Voss discovers a Time Between Time where nothing that happens counts. Initially, Time Between Time is a welcome escape from a life spent watching the clock while doing chores for her family. But something sinister is in the Time Between Time and it is headed straight for Melanie.

Death and Taxes tells the story of Nashville DeCota, the Cape Capo. Nash swears that she is not the Island Impaler, nor the Tooth Snatcher, but she has just as many skeletons in her closet. When her husband, Derrick, is kidnapped, she has to come clean about her crimes if she ever wants to see him again.

Fiona tells her own story in Hazing, where she finds that the real source of evil behind the deaths of her friends is worse than she could have ever imagined.

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