Thursday, July 09, 2009

A Bedtime Story

All the doctors at St. Helena’s Hospital agreed there was little hope for Fred as every organ in his body was shutting down after a lifetime of smoking, alcohol abuse and poor eating habits,

The inside of his intestinal tract looked like a dirty, dank, and decaying subway system in some crumbling inner city, where blackened polyps hung in every corner lurking like tiny ticking terrorist time bombs waiting to explode into a burst of cancerous activity.

However to Tommy the Tapeworm this was home.