Playing Doctor – A 100 Word Story

You know the drill – read & listen & vote at the weekly challenge website, enter this week’s challenge, listen to my story below or download via this direct link!

Also, don’t forget to make an inspirational poster for the contest! Even Lawrence from 100 Word Stories did!

I read a chapter of the self-help book, then the entirety of _Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas_. It’s a potent combination: 12-step uppers with sentence fragment gonzo hallucinogens.

The arthritis pains come with the first real snows, beautiful stabbing aches as white flakes. Pain induced insomnia turns everything into buzzing noise I read another self help chapter, and see myself, my patterns in the book. Then I mainline British science fiction.

Is love always portrayed as codependence?

I watch Fight Club again instead of staring at her picture.

I wonder if self-medication always feels like this.
Malady