This Will Not Happen Again

[mrissa]

Today I have a reprint out in Flash Fiction Online: This Will Not Happen To You.

Content note: this was written before the pandemic, but it is...not as irrelevant to the present day as one might hope, so if you were hoping for a happy story that is not at all plague-y, this may not be the story you were hoping for, and that's okay too.

Comments

[sonia]

I love this story and its perfect bitterly light (lightly bitter?) tone.

[mrissa]

Thank you.

[cjsmith]

Oh, what a great summation of how it feels to have a chronic pain condition that doctors can't cure. Save for the details, and the unspoken but clear assumption that medical professionals didn't treat this person with scorn, this has happened to so many people. So so so many. Beautifully written.

[mrissa]

Thank you.

[amaebi]

Thanks-- that's excellent.

[mrissa]

Thank you!

[pameladean]

That hits so many targets so hard but so precisely. Oooof.

P.

[mrissa]

<3