Call It What You Will

Donald Ryan's story, "Call It What You Will," was selected a runner-up in the fall 2018 Set Stories Free Contest, a creative project funded by the Knight Foundation and co-hosted by Short Edition and the Public Library Association.

The doctors, explaining the consent form, referred to him as an allergen. That's the only reason he could figure they prescribed Claritin. Well, technically they didn't prescribe Claritin, being over the counter and all. They simply recommended, "take the allergy medicine two days prior to the shots. People say it helps with the pain, yet we can't tell you why." What they did prescribe was Percocet.How bad is this going to hurt?Otherwise, yeah, he understood to the best of his knowledge what had been explained, that since he didn't have sickle cell anemia, whatever that was, he wouldn't have t

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