Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Serial Thursdays: Addiction 1

January 7, 2010 by  
Filed under Feisty Fun, Fiction, Serial Thursdays

Growing up, I always refused painkillers.  I don’t know why – maybe I thought they were a sign of weakness.  I don’t know.  I just know that I routinely turned them down, even when I was in a lot of pain.  But somehow, when I was fifteen, I came home from one more shitty day of high school – part of being a teenager, right? – and declared to my mother, “I have a headache.”  “Tylenol’s in the cabinet,” she responded absentmindedly.  I hesitated, but went and grabbed the bottle, read the directions and popped two for my nonexistent headache.  [...]