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The Plague Doctor

February 16, 2024 3 Comments

By Aiden Blasi

Of all the men and the women and the children whom I have watched die, she was the most beautiful.

She was younger than me. Yet her straw-colored curls reminded me of Mary. Of my own mother. The soft silver strands of moonlight leaking through the boarded windows found her sickly white face, shining on a film of cold sweat.

Usually, when they die, it looks like relief. For her, it looked like rapture.

So, dear reader, I beg you. Judge me not when I tell you that I lifted my beak and drank the milk of her pustules and buboes.

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  1. Tim Goldstone says

    February 16, 2024 at 7:53 am

    Excellent! 🙂

    Reply
  2. Toni Brayer says

    February 21, 2024 at 11:26 am

    Gruesome and lovely at the same time. Well done.

    Reply
  3. Pat R. says

    February 22, 2024 at 10:14 am

    Creepy good!

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