Good evening, Pub Poets! Lisa here to welcome you to Prosery: the prompt where we write prose based on some given lines of poetry. This can be flash-fiction or creative non-fiction, but it cannot exceed 144 words in total (not including the title) and must not be poetry (no versification, line breaks, metre, etc.) https://dversepoets.com/2023/01/16/dverse-prosery-everything-is-stitched/
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Medical Mystery
Melody looked straight ahead as the doctor poked and prodded, trying to feel for a tender spot.
“Does it hurt here?”
“No, towards the back a little, down a bit.”
“Did you get your appendix out, Melody?”
“Yeah, do you think it has something to do with that?”
“Well, typically the appendix is taken out of the front of the abdomen but there could have been other circumstances. When I perform an appendectomy my work is much more precise than this scar.”
“I don’t know what they did honestly. It was after a car accident and I was passing out and waking up every few minutes it felt like.”
“Well, I will have the nurse check your chart. It definitely wasn’t my work. Everything I do is stitched with its color and the appendix to me is purple.”
“Why purple?”
©2023 CBialczak prose
Stine Writing 
And now I have more questions!
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Haha! Color or procedure! 😂
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Procedure and why the color purple?!?!
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😂😂🤣
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How bizarre. My mind reels at the thought of a doctor as a poet stitching up wounds with colour.
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Hey Christine 🙂
Got your email will respond later today with interview questions – many thanks 🙂
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Yeah, they stole her kindey, I think. That doctor looks like he knows what he’s doing. Very nicely written. Thanks for sharing.
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I didn’t even think of the kidney-black-market angle!
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Color-coded stitches could really work to link a doctor to his work. I too wrote a piece about stitches. I enjoyed the dialogue in your prosery.
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Now that’s got me thinking
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😅
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A great ending sentence! Well done.
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Interesting take! I’m thinking alien abduction after her car wreck, and they implanted weird devices in her as well as stitching her up sloppily! 😆 I’m going to try not to steal this!
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Steal away! Your angle might have something!
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Cute. I hope it was only her appendix that was removed!
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funny but you’d never know until it was too late
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very mysterious! I have to say I was hooked and wanting to know more!
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Clever take on the prompt! Imagine a dr. sewing up his craft in the colors of his choice!
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Maybe a chart on the operating room wall – red stitching= coronary surgery, purple=appendix (just because of my story, lol!)
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The mystery here is really good.. why that color? why the surgery in the wrong way? This can be the beginning of something really dark.. I am thinking an alien bursting out through the skin.
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Creepy! Have you seen the Alien movies? The first one is really scary!
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Oh my–this one begs for a part 2. So mysterious! I had the same questions Lisa had.
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Hahaha, I never really knew I was a mystery writer!
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Well, there you go! 🙂
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Christine, definitely mysterious in a couple of ways. What did they do or take of hers after the accident, and why — and how — does the doctor see the appendix in purple. Enjoyable reading and wondering.
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😂
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