Sick as a Dog,

How a head cold turned me into a brilliant writer

Vivian McInerny
Real
Published in
4 min readMar 27, 2024

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Image by Matthew Henry on Unsplash

I am on day thirty-seven of hacking and coughing.

Do not worry. The computer screen doubles as a sneeze guard.

Thirty-seven is a fine number for lottery picks, too high for speedometers on most residential streets, and an awful eternity of days spent coughing and sneezing.

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