Tag Archives: The Spot

Inspiration comes from so many places.  Sometimes a TV commercial, sometimes a scene out your window as you drive by in your car, or more often, from personal experience.  In my own case, I recently had a strange pink spot on my upper leg.  I went in for one of my usual sinus/ear conditions and while I was there asked the Doctor if they could look at the spot.  They did not know what it was either, so they sent me to a Dermatologist.  The Dermatologist was puzzled so they did what they always do, they sliced it off and sent it to a lab.  The results were somewhat disquieting – cancer.  It was some kind of squamous cell carcinoma, maybe Boren’s disease.  I am probably cured, they think they got it all, but the C word can be frightening.  All this led me to write two pieces of fiction – one was The Spot and the other is The Hair.  They are submitted for publication so if they are accepted I will post the link, if not, I will post them here for all to read.