The Nerve

Wasting away in a nursing home, 97-year-old Mona knows there’s something wrong. She feels the nerve under her skin, breeding, birthing, crawling. When it becomes clear that no one believes her, she takes matters into her own hands. (WARNING: This short story is not for the squeamish!) CC Geddes is the dark alter ego of a Reno-based writer whose credits include more than a dozen short stories, two poems, a few essays, a bunch of ghostwritten nonfiction books, more than 300 nonfiction articles, and a big bunch of editing (magazines, short stories, and books). She is a publisher at Lucky Bat Books and runs Flying Hand Writing Services, both designed to empower writers to tell their stories in their own ways.