A Loafing Couch, A Jug of Cough Syrup & Thou

Vivian McInerny
4 min readJan 9, 2023

How feeling sick as a dog made me a brilliant writer

Photo by Matthew Henry on Unsplash

This was my thirty-third day of hacking and coughing. Not to worry. The computer screen doubles as a sneeze guard.

When one is laying prone sick on the couch unable to participate in the corporeal joys of life, too eye-achy even to pry one’s lids open to the visual stimuli of screen time, one must make the…

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Vivian McInerny

Career journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and life-long spirit-quester.