If Left Untreated — A Short Story
Short Story Hayley Bell Short Story Hayley Bell

If Left Untreated — A Short Story

There is nothing more frightening to a grocery store manager than the sound of a shopper falling down. When the manager heard the spattering chaos, followed shortly by calls for help, he raced to the spot. Shoppers heard, “Clean up on aisle five,” over the intercom, but to the manager it sounded like, “Impending lawsuit. Impending doom.”

The scene was something the manager had never seen before. There was thick, black sludge congealed in the middle of the aisle. It enveloped the fallen woman as she struggled to get up.

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