The next day Susan decided she would not let anything part her from her daughter. First and most important was to raise her own morale. No more bad thoughts, no more anguish. She was going to create only favorable contexts and not give in to the fears. After all, she did not know for certain how sick she was. Maybe the same fears were playing her out. She decided to wait for the results and to go on with her life as it was before.
After a while Susan began to feel the change. No more nightmares, no more vomiting sensations, no more waves of chemicals hissing at her office window. She was back into shape, realizing it had all been in her head. She had the power over her mental state, and the secret was "thought screening." It sounded silly, Susan admitted, but it was a good term for what she'd been doing to relieve herself of the bad thoughts that were trying to infiltrate, conquer and take over her mind. Sitting at her office desk, reading about self-motivation in between visits, Susan had a revelation: if stress and emotional trauma are caused by too much awareness, then maybe if you pull down on the throttle of awareness you could also do away with some suffering. It was like building a shield of positive thinking around yourself so that all the negative thoughts would bounce off it.
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The Sphere
Short StorySusan lives on the lush coast of eastern Ireland, taking care of her daughter and her many patients. But an enemy Susan is intimately familiar with begins a full on assault on her duties as a mother and a doctor. **This story received 2nd prize at t...
