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An Excerpt from a Writing Project

7/12/2017

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From The Magic Video Game

Before he knew it, Levi Cranston had the laughing gas mask put over his face. He was told to breathe deeply. Levi focused on his breathing while also listening intently to the fast beep-beep’s of the heart monitor. He was very nervous at first, and then he thought about Mackenzie. She would be there in spirit, with her ear pressed firmly against his chest so that she could actually hear his strong heartbeat and the gentle whooshes of his breathing. She would tell him that she loved him and that he would make it through the surgery very well. This calmed him down a lot. He noticed that his heart rate slowed down a little, and he wasn’t breathing too hard. He was now in a state of peace.


“I love you, Mackenzie,” Levi thought before he fell asleep. When he was finally under the anesthetic, the surgeons started operating on his throat.


[....]

Once his tonsils and adenoids were taken out, he was wheeled into the recovery room.

“Levi, wake up,” said a nurse.

Levi opened his eyes. His vision was blurry. He felt hot. His throat felt hot. He was incredibly thirsty. Above all, he wondered where his parents were. When he was able to return to his senses, he did not feel much different. His throat hurt even more now than it did before surgery. It felt like he had four cases of strep throat, all at once. His throat also felt very hot, as if a flame torch had been forced down. His parents then came into the room.


“Hey, Levi,” his dad said calmly.


Levi really did not feel like talking much.


“Worst. Day. Of. My. Life,” Levi muttered quietly.


A nurse then came into the room.


“Would you like cherry, orange, or grape?” Nurse Michaelson asked him in a motherly manner.

Levi pointed at the grape popsicle. The nurse gave the grape popsicle to Levi’s mom. His mom opened the wrapper, and then held the popsicle while Levi was slowly sucking on it.

Nurse Michaelson felt very sorry for Levi, based on the hearsay that she was given about the trouble the surgeons went through just to take out his tonsils. She, a big woman probably closing in on 60, always smiled sympathetically. She wanted so badly to make the atmosphere in the recovery room slightly more comfortable.


“How’s your throat, hon?” Levi’s mom asked while she held the popsicle up to Levi’s mouth.


Levi shook his head, meaning that it really hurt.


“One of the surgeons accidentally cut the area above where Levi’s tonsils used to be, and the surgeons could not control the bleeding. So, they had to stitch the cut in order to stop it,” the nurse explained with utmost compassion.


Levi let out a heavy sigh.


“So, that’s why it hurts so much?” Levi questioned softly.


The nurse slowly nodded.


“Would you like to see what your tonsils looked like?” Nurse Michaelson questioned Levi, who, in return, shrugged his shoulders.


He didn’t care that much about what his tonsils looked like. Nurse Michaelson brought in a small bag with two enormous blobs of tissue inside it. At first, Levi was pretty grossed out. He grew nauseated for about fifteen minutes, and then he did not think his tonsils really looked that bad.


“Can I keep my tonsils in a jar?” Levi questioned the nurse with a weak smile.


There were five seconds of silence, and then his parents and the nurse started laughing very hard. Levi couldn’t help but smile because he was proud that he made everyone around him laugh.


“I wish I could say yes, but if you did, your tonsils would decay, and they would smell horrible,” the nurse responded.


Levi shrugged his shoulders. He really could not stand the fact that he had a burning sensation in the back of his throat.


“Did someone force a burning muffin down my throat?”

“No.”
“Oh.”
“Your throat may feel hot because of the cauterization wand that the surgeons used.”

Levi let out a heavy sigh. It was obvious that he really was not himself. On a normal day, he would never assume that anyone forced a burning muffin down his throat; much less would he have much interest in keeping his tonsils in a jar in his backpack.


“Je m’appelle Levi Cranston. J’habite a Valparaiso. Je suis americain. Je parle français.”

“Are you taking French right now?”
“Yes, sir. I love it.”

There were five seconds of silence. The nurse and Levi’s parents could not help but laugh. Levi let out another weak smile. He was completely out of it. The anesthesia was slowly wearing off. And then….


“I love you, Mackenzie!” Levi then blurted out with tears in his eyes.

“Awwww,” his mother answered sympathetically while moving closer to him to wipe his tears with some facial tissues.

She then put her hand on his chest to calm him down. Levi cried himself back to sleep. He and his parents stayed in the recovery room for another two hours.


Then, they went home.  

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8/1/2017 06:53:40 am

This looks like it's written by a literary expert. It's not only done well, but its story was carefully thought of. I'm sure that the creators of this excerpt are literary inclined and knowledgeable. I'd love to read more from his/her line of work. I hope that you can post more of their works in the future.

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BLevi
3/27/2018 10:28:05 pm

Hi! I actually wrote this. Check out more of my work at www.bleviworldofscifi.com!

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