Serial Thursdays: Addiction 1
January 7, 2010 by Feisty Foodie
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. [...]
