Perchance

Here's a lesson from your dear friend Rory, kiddos: Tetanus booster shots are, like, REALLY important.

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Rory's life is hectic. She's a sophomore in college with two jobs to try to pay the bills, so she doesn't have time to eat regularly, much less deal with routine medical care.

Until she cuts her hand on a spinning wheel and winds up in intensive care.

And there, floating unconscious somewhere between life and death, she just may find the thing that makes it all worthwhile. If she can wake back up and claim it, that is.

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~This is my entry for the Once Upon Now contest. I really appreciate everyone reading and voting (especially on chapter one)! ~

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Title from Hamlet, Act III, Scene I:

To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...