The name means "skin writing," as the rash is literally embossed on the skin's surface by anything that touches it. WHEN I THINK of having dermatographic urticaria, I ultimately think of the irony inherent in my own condition: I was a young writer afflicted with a disease whose name mea...
A few students had the experience of seeing someone with this condition on the wards or in the out-patient department; most knew dermographism only through the texts, with their classic illustrations鈥攂are-backed patient displaying his own caption: "There'll always be an England," or "...
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Her eyes remained locked on Carrie’s, and she didn’t release Carrie’s hand. Her thumb gently, subtly caressed the skin between Carrie’s thumb and forefinger. Carrie pulled her hand from the woman’s grasp and indicated the others at the table. Her skin tingled where Eithne had touch...
A writing instrument of the present invention has an ink chamber 2 formed inside a main body 1 of the writing instrument, a writing element 5 provided on a front end portion of the main body 1 of the writing instrument, a reservoir chamber 10 which is formed between the ink chamber 2 an...
“A fine impalpable sea-mist drifted through the air and clung to his skin without wetting it. A yellow aspen-leaf detached from its branch, hovered for an instant with intentional grace in front of Philippe’s eyes…He cocked one ear and listened to the winter sound of coal being shovel...
My story is called “Dying shadows” and it’s about a seventeen year old girl named Christina (Chris) who lost both her parents in a shooting at her tenth birthday party. She was the only survivor of the shooting, but was in critical condition. ...
Blonde, late 30s or early 40s, good skin, she’d have been nervous, an upscale woman like her with a missing husband, sitting Gaffney’s dusty office on the fifth floor of the old Martindale Agricultural Building. She wouldn’t come in wearing a pinstriped blazer over a designer T-shirt...
The judge granted him ogbono soup support on one condition – he had to provide his own pounded yam. He died a few months later of food poisoning. The ex-wife was never charged with murder – apparently the fool ate all the evidence before he died. I am hungry. Very hungry. And I ...
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