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Sick



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

Tending to my sister Emily is a taxing job. It’s been perhaps three years since she’s become too infirm to leave the house, and I’m afraid I’m often the only company she can enjoy anymore. She used to love spending days in the park so much. I am always heartbroken to deny her such things.

Her face, once lovely, is now thin and gaunt from sickness. The strain of speaking leaves her words with a faulting, whisper-like quality. When I take her pulse in the morning, her wrists feel as if they were frozen from cold. I must always keep her smothered in blankets, or else she will shiver until her teeth chatter.

Emily gets so lonely, that I’ve even arranged for friends of mine to come by and be her “dates.” They can’t leave the house together, naturally, but I believe she really enjoys talking to someone new now and again. I can be terrible with conversation sometimes, and I know how much she loves to debate, and to laugh.

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I love my sister dearly, which is why I take such excellent care of her. She’d never doubt for a moment my conviction to her happiness, and I know in my heart that she appreciates my sacrifice. Someday, when she’s feeling grateful – so grateful that nothing in the whole world could upset her – I’ll admit that I’ve been poisoning her the whole time.


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Check out David Feuling’s critically-acclaimed trilogy of novellas, The American Demon Waltz, now available on Amazon.com.

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All three novellas in the trilogy described below are included in the compilation:

“Bravo Juliet” is a survival horror military thriller, and the first novella by acclaimed fiction author, David Feuling. It tells the story of an elite soldier serving under US Army Special Project: Acrylic Geist, before she is betrayed and left to die in the wilderness of war-torn Vietnam. Brutal injuries, debilitating sickness, and the growing Lovecraftian threat of “The Maw” test not only Bobby’s will to survive, but her grasp on sanity itself.

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“Witness to Those Waiting” is the second book in the “Bravo Juliet” series. Master Specialist Barbara Balk returns to investigate the subterranean mazes carved out beneath Kosovo’s towns and streets. From her entry through the Ngordhje churchyard, she must face undead horrors and ancient evils alike in her quest to return to the surface with answers.

“Vechnaya L’Vitsa” pits Corporal Barbara Balk against new foes in the depths of U.S. Covert Command Outpost (USCCO) #241. Leading a team of six soldiers and tasked with defending the experimental LISEMEC superweapon until it is ready to fire, can Bobby hold out long enough while under siege? Her resolve will be tested by supernatural forces, enemy sabotage, and the expansive Antarctic wasteland itself.

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66 thoughts on “Sick”

  1. I’m literally reading this and i’m like, “Wow, Could this be a feel good ending”? I read the last sentence and i tell myself “Its a creepypasta for christsakes what was i thinking?

  2. this reminds me of a certain episode in ncis/csi/the mentalist (I don’t really remember which) where the “wife” was sick, wheelchair-bound while his husband tends to her all the time, not realizing that the medicine he gives to her are actually what’s causing her to be sick. because basically the wife wants her husband’s attention so badly she’s willing to be “disabled.” there was even a scene where his husband pushed her wheelchair into the pool and she was able to swim back and beg for his forgiveness.
    I wish there was a in-depth version of this story.

  3. in all honesty i thought it would end by telling the reader that she has been dead all along. this took me off guard. well done.

  4. Nice plot twist! I was honestly expecting Emily to be a corpse that her sibling was taking care of as if it where alive. As one very minor point, I see that it’s stated in the comments that the narrator is female yet, when I read this I imagined it being a brother taking care of her. If you want people to know it’s two sisters in the story you could easily just toss in quick line about how “Emily always idolized her big sister…” or something like that. However, leaving the narrator’s gender ambiguous is not an issue at all as it really has no bearing on the story so if your ok with readers not knowing whether the narrator is male or female it’s great as-is! All and all a short but nice little pasta with an interesting twist!

  5. I felt the twist was unnecessary tbh. It offered no clarity to the plot whatsoever. The best twists (and honestly the only way twists should ever be utilized) should make the reread 10 times more satisfying.

  6. I had to read the comments to understand that the narrator had been poisoning Emily to MAKE her sick. Very nice twist, once I fully understood!

  7. Anyone not realize this is the same thing that happened to the little girl in the Sixth Sense except it was her mother? Total rip off.

  8. anonymousdollz

    Nice little twist at the end. For a while I thought it was that her sister was dead and she was just to crazy to admit it, so she just kept taking care of a corpse for years.

  9. This was cool, i was expecting it to have some supernatural twist at the end, and it surely did have a twist but it wasnt “but we are all dead”. Its at least a possible story, and it is told in a succinct and abrupt way. Great Job!

    1. In ‘The Sixth Sense’, one of the ghosts begs him to help her reveal to her father, that her mother was the reason she’s dead. The mother (step mother? I can’t remember) was adding windshield wiper fluid (again not sure, but definetely some kind of poison) into her meals, in order to kill her.

      Not really the same, but similar I guess.

  10. WoW! You guys must be really young. Watch some old movies. This is “Sweet Baby Jane” revised. It’s a great old black and white horror flick. Check it out sometime… it’s damn good! :)

  11. I’m actually very pleased with the ending. The way he talks about his sister is as if he would do anything in the world for her. The thing is there really is no hint to why he’s killing her. Other than that it’s great.

  12. Munchausen syndrome by proxy. (I’ve seen enough Law and Order: SVU to diagnose it, lol). This story is simple, brief, and, in a word, graceful. It is a perfect depiction of what women with the syndrome think while they poison their loved ones. Kudos.

  13. To answer Sharik’s question. The sister get’s the satisfaction of taking care of Emily. Yes it sounds strange but there are people out there that live off being needed by those weaker or beneath them. It makes them feel stronge in a way. It’s a sick fantasy, and in the sister’s mind she is doing all this for Emily’s good, to keep her isolated and safe from outside interference. Though this is all just my oppinion.

    1. Sounds a lot like munchousoun syndrome. I think I spelled it wrong but there are.people who kill their kids or spouse to get attention, maybe this is the same thing…

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